Re: laptop, ethernet and networking

["Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <vizzie@airmail.net>]

Karsten Bolding writes:

[ A correctly working ethernet card ]

-> ifconfig reports eth0 is up 
-> 
-> 	route add -net 130.226.66.83
-> 
-> with this result
-> 
-> SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
-> 

Thos should be "route add -net 130.226.66.0".  route -net takes the
network address to route to as the argument, not the interface
address. If the machine has another interface with the same network,
then you can just say "route add -net 130.226.66.0 dev eth0" to get it
to use the eth0 device.

HTH
-Larry
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