Hi,
On 11/13/2009 12:29 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
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.
Well, firstly, not everyone in Red Hat (btw, that's the name -- it is 2 words),
knows everything about every tool, even the heavyweights and if they did claim
to know a lot about NetworkManager but could not fix the issue, it strongly
indicates a bug (since the general populace do not have ready access to Red Hat
heavyweights who could suggest workarounds as you possibly do :) ).
So, like I mentioned maybe you should report it, but before that ...
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.
What do you mean by hard coded ? Did you add it to the routes in the GUI tool
(ie: nm-applet->right click->edit connections->select connection->edit->ipv4
settings->route) ?
I ask because if that is not the way you did it, I suspect the system will try
to apply this 'hardcoded' route to /every/ connection.
b. What tool do you use to make the connection, NetworkManager/wvdial ?
network manager/wvdial for usb and network manager for ethernet
ok.
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
Again, this also indicates that the default gateway is being 'set' or 'reset'
from someplace outside of NM (and when it fails -- which it would if the
gateways doesn't belong to the network you are setting it for -- you end up with
an empty default gateway).
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.
could you paste the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/network ?
cheers,
- steve
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