Re: MULTIA -> SIOCADDRT : Invalid argument
Thank you. I thought I had missed something! I am not familiar with a lot
of American jargon even though I have lived here 10 years now!
:-)
At 11:12 a 9/5/99 , Steven Udell wrote:
>Izaak Bozof wrote:
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> Can you please explaing the command "yer"? I am not familiar with this and
>> cannot find anywhere in man or ifconfig info.
>>
>> rgfd
>>
>> izaak
>>
>> At 08:03 p 9/4/99 , Steve Udell wrote:
>> >Oliver wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I compiled a new 2.2.12 - kernel. On boot screen I can see twice:
>> >>
>> >> "SIOCADDRT : Invalid argument"
>> >>
>> >> What does it mean? How to fix?
>
>>Linux kernels 2.2.XX do not need the route -net add command
>>take it out of lo and yer ethernet with a comment # and reboot
>>So you just for yer ifconfig for yer loopback
>>and yer ifconfig and your route gateway for the nic card(if needed)
>
>>>Steve
>>>Can you please explaing the command "yer"? I am not familiar with this and
>>>cannot find anywhere in man or ifconfig info.
>>>rgfd
>>>izaak
>
>yer=your its not a command.
>So in english:
>
>Linux kernels 2.2.XX do not use the route add -net command any longer.
>It automagicly knows the route.
>
>You do need to to have your ifconfig and 'route for your gateway' still tho.
>
>if you let debian do a messy job of installing the network your not
>going to see these two lines clearly but whats directions I give can
>be translated to it without much difficulty(on your part) (or yer part<g>)
>
>*Please be aware the IPs and Netmasks may differ on your machine*
>*adjust to your's*
>
>So directions on a Debian system:
>cd /etc/init.d/
>vi network
>
>#! /bin/sh
>ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
>#route add -net 127.0.0.0
>
>ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
>#route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
>route add default gw 24.9.180.1 eth0
>
>***
>Notes: notice the two route add -net blahblah.blah lines have been
> commented out with a #. This is done for a 2.2.XX kernel to
> stop thoes pesky SIOCADDRT errors.
>
> I say comment them out because so you can put them back if needed.
> I hope this time I make sense....
>
> Last note yet again is that debian auto sets this up at install
> if you have never fixed it up to something simpler (cause debians
> way uses variables and a ton more lines) in case of huge networks(i guess)
>
>exter notes: look for these two lines (they will look like them)
>route add -net 127.0.0.0
>&
>route add -net ${NETWORK}
>
>COMMENT them both out
>with a # in front of em..you should be fine.
>Save and exit.. (you know this is just for rebooting)
>you can take down the etherntet by hand and put em back up by hand
>type man ifconfig or go check out the NET-3-HOWTO
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