Re: Network unreachable
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 22:21, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> When I use the kernel that I built from the source for 2.4.18-686, I get
> the message:
>
> sendto: Network is unreachable
>
> when I try to ping another machine on my network. Using ifconfig, I
> noticed that eth0 had no IP address assigned. So I did
>
> ifconfig eth0 down
>
> and then
>
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
>
> At that point, ping worked. So it seems as if dhcp is not working. Is
> there something in the kernel configuration that is required to make
> dhcp work?
>
> I am still not able to browse the web. I get the message "Could not
> connect to host ..." no matter what URL I use.
If you can ping yourself, then I think that means that the kernel
understands networking. Sounds like a userland problem. If you
boot using a different kernel, does it work ok?
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