Just a fwiw, DHCP. Static network configuration works too, if you know what you are doing. However, the empirical evidence suggests you would benefit from DHCP.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 09:47 Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > Having been a while since I last set routes I've lost a step when > setting > the default gateway. > > The routing table has both loopback and LAN routes. Now I need to set > the > default gateway and the kernel tells me there's a SIOCADDRT (address) > error. > > In slackware's rc.inet1.conf interface configuration file the default > gateway is set on 192.168.55.4. Using this command: > > route add default gw 192.168.55.4 > > returns the above error that the network is unreachable. > > The route man page example has a host name for the gateway and I've > tried > that, too, with the same result. > > What have I missed here? > > On a curious, somewhat related issue, while there's only one Ethernet > port > on the motherboard ifconfig sees it as eth1 rather than eth0. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
