On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 17 Apr 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On Friday 17 April 2009 10:51:30 Arun Khan wrote: > > > ....snip ... > > > > > > > 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 with your IT staff to see if they have changed anything in > > > the DHCP server. Are you getting other network parameters like DNS > > > servers etc. from the DHCP server? > > > > my mandriva machine on the same LAN gets all the info with not > > problem. My laptop is running caching only nameserver using opendns > > Then there is a problem with the network settings in your laptop _or_ > there is a bug in the way Fedora 10 is handling your network settings. > It is strange that it works when you are at home and not at work. > > -- > Arun Khan > > Though not the answer as to why it does not work, you can set up more than one default route. You can have a static default route with metric 2 pointing to ...201. When at home, x.x.x.1 will work as it is served by DHCP and has a lower cost. When at office, x.x.x.201 being the only route should work.
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