On Wednesday 29 August 2001 12:14 pm, you wrote:
> All you need is a working default route. You do NOT need explicit
> routes to your DNS servers, though until you identify them in resolv.conf
> you won't be able to use DNS names. For a static connection, the
> complete routing table should look something like:
>
> netstat -nr
> or
> route -n
> ------------
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface 65.3.93.0 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 15 0
> 0 lo 0.0.0.0 65.3.93.1 0.0.0.0 UG 30 0
> 0 eth0 ------------
>
> Anything more than that is asking for a subtle mistake to come back and
> bite you later. Since the first route in this table is usually inserted
> automatically when you configure eth0 in a 2.2 kernel, you may not need
> ANY static routes in the configuration files.
I added these lines to resolve.conf
domain localhost.localdomain
nameserver 63.200.115.40
nameserver 206.13.31.12
These are the outputs I recieved for route -n, route, and ifconfig
respectively
[root@localhost /sbin]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 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
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
[root@localhost /sbin]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
[root@localhost /sbin]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:32:FC:29
inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:51 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:3
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
I am stiff unable to get off the LAN. I am still at a loss but I do
appreciate your help.