Dan McGhee wrote:
> Soooo. Back to the route tables. First of all, my ISP gave me the > following: > > 1. My static IP > 2. Gateway IP > 3. Subnet Mask IP > 4. DNS Preferred IP > 5. DNS Alternate IP > > I ran 'routel' in both Mandrake and BLFS. There's one glaring > difference. In Mandrake there's a route that looks like this: > > target gateway source proto scope > dev tbl > > default 216.139.123.254 > eth0 > > So I tried to add something similar to the BLFS tables by running > > route add default gw [Gateway IP] > > I got the message: 'SIOCADDRT Network is unreachable.' Doing Google I > found an article at this site: > http://www.uit.co.uk/practical-tcpip/w-rterr-015.htm That should be a good clue. I would assume the gateway that the ISP gave you is on the same subnet as the IP address they've assigned you. Double check your prefix. What does the mask show in Mandrake vs. LFS? Just to double check, please forgive me if it seems too simple, I just want to cover all bases: From the above info, if your IP is 216.139.123.xxx, then a prefix of 24 is probably correct. 216.139.xxx.xxx/16, 216.xxx.xxx.xxx/8 (in most cases(others are reserved for smaller address ranges)). Any possibility of attaching another PC with an address in the same range to test that the card is actaully working? > > Oh, BTW. When I set up RP-PPPoE and created the > /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/pppoe file. The book said > to enclose the entries in ". For example, ONBOOT="yes." However, for > the corresponding file for ipv4, the LFS book does not include the > quotes. Same line from LFS, ONBOOT=yes. Which syntax is correct? > Doesn't matter unless you are providing multiple options in one variable. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
