On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<[email protected]> 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?

Yes its painful, i tried the tip from
http://kutuma.blogspot.com/2007/11/changing-default-gateway-using-network.html
, it worked in my case

$cat /etc/network/if-up.d/gwconfig
#!/bin/sh

if [ "$IFACE" = "wlan0" ]; then
 route delete default gw
 route add default gw 192.168.1.1
fi


-Satya
http://www.linkedin.com/in/satyaakam

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