On Wednesday 10 December 2003 23:53, Steve Wechsler wrote: > Just installed Mandrake 9.0. When I went through the install procedure I > told it to use a static IP, and it then asked me for my default gateway. > After the setup was completed, the default gateway didn't seem to be > working properly - I couldn't ping anything outside my LAN. So I did a > route add default gw gateway_ip, and that seemed to work, which means that > it can now access DNS. However, ping and traceroute (other services like > FTP work) don't seem to get returned to my machine. My windows machine on > the same network has no such problems. Also, I wonder if the default > gateway will be maintained once my machine is rebooted. Please help. > > Thanks, > > Steve Add your nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf as su/root, thus: echo nameserver gateway_ip > /etc/resolv.conf
That way everything should work. On reboot the route will be lost. To set that permanently run "drakconnect" and set it there. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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