By the way... what the heck is pump? I was looking through the ifup script and it
seems that
when dhcp need be used, pump takes over. I read somewhere that pump takes care of dhcp
but does it run dhcpcd? If not, then why do I need dhcpcd? My dhcp scripts are not
being.
Weston Sewell wrote:
> christ wrote:
>
> > network unreachable generally signifies a routing problem. why not
> > include for us the output of a netstat -rn and tell us what addresses
> > you think you are trying to use (if any non-DHCP) and what your exact
> > network situation is--cablemodem? dorm ethernet? ppp?
>
> Sure enough (netstat -rn):
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> 24.93.45.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
> eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
> lo
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I'm using a cablemodem (so dhcp obviously). I have bee trying to just
> ping the
> IP addresses that are listed in resolv.conf, since I know those are the
> closest, and on my
> network, but that's that's where I get the "network unreachable".
>
> > well, yeah, you need something as a default gateway...
> > else you're going to be trapped inside your little chunk of net.
> which can
> > be not too horrible if youre ppp'd to UT (you wont see the rest of the
>
> > world but UT sites wshould be fine ), or extremely suck on a
> cablemodem
> > where you are on a chunk with say 250 other subscribers, only.
>
> That's what I figured, but I can't figure out why I don't have a default
> gw
> anymore. I did before I upgraded everything and now... not so much.
> How can I manually
> set the default gw when I'm using dhcp?
>
> >
> > in general, you can use netcfg in X win to make things work if you
> want to
> > stay inside of the box on rh.
> >
> > i suggest reading a book---the linux net HOWTO's dont necessarily give
>
> > decent explanations, rather focusing on practical examples...which
> wont
> > help you understand, but may get you configured.
> >
> > one i can recommend personally is "tcp/ip network administration"
> > published by oreilly.
>
> I used netcfg originally to setup my network, and it looks the same now
> as it
> did before, the settings within I mean. Should I try to removing my
> ethernet
> adaptor and then adding it again in netcfg to 'fix' the net scripts?
> Thanks for the
> recommendation, I may pick it up if I can squeeze it into my budget :)
>
> weston
>
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