On Friday 13 Nov 2009 12:05:30 pm steve wrote: > >> Not true. I've been using Fedora for a long time and with different > >> providers and I've never had to do this. > > > > I do it at least twice a day > > Hmm, interesting. Could you please elaborate ? You should not have to do > that at all. If you do, that's a bug and you should report it. However, > lets try and debug this first ...
I demonstrated this problem at Gnunify - and a few RedHat heavyweights tried to solve it. They could not. > a. What sort of connection do you have to do this for ? all connections - both usb and ethernet. For the usb modem, the gateway is hard coded so that works. > b. What tool do you use to make the connection, NetworkManager/wvdial ? network manager/wvdial for usb and network manager for ethernet > c. Do you have any other connections active ?[1] the problem arises when I switch my laptop from one ethernet to another (home to office, or some else's lan during a talk). Also when rebooting > d. Could you please paste the output of 'route -n', before and after > you've changed the default route ? > [r...@xlquest lawgon]# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1002 0 0 eth0 default firewall.lan.au 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 this is after changing the default - before changing the last line is missing, or set to the previous gateway. I almost never shutdown the laptop. -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ 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
