Re: Network unreachable
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 05:03, Marshal Wong wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 01:41, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 03:28, Marshal Wong wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:21, 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.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I've noticed that dhcp doesn't change any configurations. If I run
> > > dhclient, it spews out the information for the dhcp, but that's it. It
> > > doesn't change any network settings. It's been that way for a long time
> > > now, but I've just worked around it... Good to know that someone else
> > > is having the problem...
> > >
> > > Anyways, to help you with the "Could no connect to host..." problem, you
> > > probably need to add a default gateway to your routing table.
> > >
> > > Check if the default gateway is reasonable using
> > >
> > > # route (as root. Haha!)
> > >
> > > If not, then
> > >
> > > # route add default gw <ip.address.of.gateway>
> >
> > That should not be necessary. ifup should do that for you, if your
> > /etc/network/interfaces has this in it:
> > auto eth0
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> >
>
> Right, it should. But it doesn't on my computer, for some reason. At
> least it didn't when I was using DHCP. I haven't tested it recently.
>
> It could be a powerpc thing though...
Which dhcp client are you using?
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