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eigenman
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 Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:42 am Post subject: Problem with network, |
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Hi, I'm very confused about the network situation on my computer. I have a Linksys BEF11WS4 router, and two computers are connected through normal ethernet cable to this router. I want to assign static IP to these computers. My older computer, which is running ubuntu was set up a long time ago, and it seems to be working fine. For my new computer, which has gentoo installed, I followed the gentoo howto.
Here is my /etc/conf.d/net file
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# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
dns_domain_lo="klsy"
config_eth0=( "192.168.0.50 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
routes_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.0.1" )
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I've also created a soft link net.eth0, and put it in /etc/init.d/net.eth0.
I can run /etc/init.d/net.eth0, and it runs the correct commands. If on the prompt I run
ifconfig eth0, I get the correct values:
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:BE:E4:EF
inet addr:192.168.0.50 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:85ff:febe:e4ef/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:38428 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:49457046 (47.1 Mb) TX bytes:3715943 (3.5 Mb)
Interrupt:177
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However, when I run route, it waits a long time before it prints the correct values:
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Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
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However, I don't have access to anything outside of my local internet. For example, I can't surf the web, however I can ssh into my other computer at this point.
I've found a workaround for now, which is to run
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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
dhcpcd eth0
dhcpcd -k eth0
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.50
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
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Somhow letting dhcpcd setup the internet, everything works, and afterthat I can just change the ip address myself, and everything will work fine. Needless to say, this is probably the wrong solution. I'm guessing that there is something I need to setup which I'm not doing, but dhcpcd does. Does anybody have an idea what that is? The other possibility is that my router is just plain broken, but I don't like that idea.
Any help is appreciated,
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didymos
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Did you set up nameservers in resolv.conf? That's probably being set automatically with dhcp, which is why it works.
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eigenman
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bingo! That is the problem. Thanks. However, I just realized that net-scripts overwrites my /etc/resolve.conf because of my
dns_domain_lo comment. Here is my resolve.conf:
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# Generated by net-scripts for interface lo
domain klsy
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I've added my nameserver to /etc/resolve.conf, and commented my dns_domain_lo in my /etc/conf.d/net. Is there another way I can resolve this? I followed the instructions from the
installation wiki article. Should I make an edit to warn people about this issue?
Cheers,
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didymos
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I've never bothered using /etc/conf.d/net to set the DNS domain. Unless you have some special requirements, setting it in resolv.conf is the simplest solution. If you prefer to keep that in /etc/conf.d/net, just use this variable in there to set nameservers:
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dns_servers_eth0="nameserver1 nameserver2"
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You may want to set a more "normal" looking domain name. There really aren't good private top-level domains set aside like there are private IP address blocks, but some are used quite commonly. For example, I use "localnet.lan", so maybe you'd want something like "klsy.lan".
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