On 04/17/2009 10:27 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > > I use my laptop with whatever LAN connection is available. At home I have a > bsnl broadband modem with several ethernet ports - I plug in the ethernet > cable to my laptop - laptop is set to get IP and other info from DHCP, and it > works out of the box. In the office LAN, this was working out of the box > previously. Now ethernet gets detected, but there is no default route - I > have > to manually add the default route to the gateway. Any idea why this should > happen?
Check /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 or equivalent to check if a default gateway is set there. Otherwise you can edit the file and add it. Also Applications -> System Settings -> Network. In the advanced tab, make sure the connect you want is setup as the default route. Rahul _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
