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ltzany
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Location: Norristown, PA

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:53 pm    Post subject: network unreachable, internet troubleshoot help Reply with quote

i keep getting 'network: unreachable" errors when i try to ping anything.

my nic is set up properly and shows up in ifconfig...

it will ping my router fine..but if i try to ping a website, like yahoo.com...it says "network: unreachable"

any help is appreciated...thank you.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You don't have a gateway set; run
Code:
route -n

to check, then edit /etc/conf.d/net to something like this:
Code:
gateway="eth0/a.b.c.d"

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fixed! thanks. weird..i had removed that from the conf.d/net and seemed to helped the net connection to work...but not with the internet....but i added it back...and now it works..cool..thanks!
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