eth0: no IPv6 router present - resolved, thanks
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:31:30AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:00:50PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:44:40PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:57:35AM -0500, W Paul Mills wrote:
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> > > > Thomas H. George wrote:
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> > > The network is still unreachable although all the machines
> > > on the lan respond to pings.
> > >
> > > Could the problem be the IP address 169.254.122.180 is still assigned to
> > > eth0? I have been unable to remove this and it is always the first item
> > > in the output of ifconfig. It is now followed by an entry for eth0:0
> > > which contains the 192.168.2.102 address. If the firewall sees
> > > 169.254.122.180 it will drop the message on the floor.
> >
> > can I suggest you us ip (from the iproute package).
> >
> > If you interface was originally a dhcp interface, you have to kill
> > dhcpclient as well as assigning a new address to the interface.
> >
> > try
> > ip addr show dev eth0
> >
> > then
> > find and kill any dhcp clients looking on eth0
> > ip a flush dev eth0
> >
> > then add your address information
> >
> > ip a a dev eth0 192.168.2.102/24
> >
> > use
> >
> > ip route show
> >
> > to show your route table
> >
> > Alex
> >
> The ip commands removed the dhcp clients and assigned the address
> 192.168.2.104 to eth0 but still no gateway . I am reading an online
> manual and tried adding 'via 192.168.2.102' to the ip command but this
> was clearly wrong. ip responded, "Either 'local' is a duplicate or 'via'
> is a garbage. I'll study the manual more closely. In any event iproute
> is clearly the way to go and fortunately "-d lenny" installed it when I
> built the Debian Live CD.
>
> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
>
> Tom
All OK. ip route add default via 192.168.2.102 did the trick. Running
from the Debian Live CD I can now connect to the internet.
Tom
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