2009/8/10 Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> > > On 9 Aug 2009, at 08:01, Andrey Vul wrote: > > I somehow killed the dhcp in my openwrt router and failsafe mode >> requires a static IP address. Stopping net.eth0 and then running >> '#ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2' resulted with a 'No >> route to host' error when telnetting to 192.168.1.1 . >> > > Better to edit /etc/conf.d/net for static IP, then restart > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 > > See /etc/conf.d/net.example > > Probably something like: > > config_eth0=( "192.168.1.44 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255" > ) > routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.1.1" ) > > Stroller. > > > Check your /etc/resolv.conf as well. Make sure any automated networking daemons are shut off, because some of them like to over-write this, which is bad if they aren't working correctly with the network for some reason. This is often the difference between unknown route to host and a functional network!
~daid
