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Re: weird routing problems.



I don't know what happened, but everything works now, my network.bak
script (the original one) works perfectly, and the modified version
doesn't work.  well, since everythings working fine right now (crossed
fingers), hopefully it will stay that way.

On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:

> On Jun 24, Shaya Potter wrote
> : 
> : I somehow did something that affects route.  I have the simple settings
> : that the debian installer automatically sets up in my /etc/init.d/network
> : file.
> : 
> : This ifconfig's the eth0 interface appropriatly, set's up the network, but
> : when it tries to set the default route, I get.
> : 
> : chum# route add default gw 132.250.89.81
> : route: eth0_broadcast: cannot use a NETWORK as gateway!
> : Usage: route [-nNvee] [-FC] [Address_families]  List kernel routing tables
> :        route {-V|--version}                  Display command version and
> : exit.
> :        route {-h|--help} [Address_family]    Usage Syntax for specified
> : AF.
> :        route [-v] [-FC] {add|del|flush} ...  Modify routing table for AF.
> : 
> :   Address_families: inet,ddp,ipx,netrom,ax25
> :         specify AF: -A af1,af2..  or  --af1 --af2  or  af_route
> 
> What's your netmask?  (As configured on the interface.)

It's 255.255.255.192

> : 
> : however, if I replace the "132.250.89.81" with "pacfw" (what /etc/hosts
> : says is 132.250.89.81), everything works.
> 
> Weired, indeed.
> 

thanks for the offer of help.

Shaya


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