Re: Default Route On Boot.
225.225.225.0 is not a valid netmask. Your system can't determine if
your gateway and your address are on the same network. Try with
255.255.255.0.
cu.
Nick Porter a écrit :
>I'm at a complete loss of how to make this work. The way I understand it
>there are three ways to set a default route when the machine boots. 1)
>Use DHCP. 2) From the Interfaces file. 3) A script in one of the
>if-xxxxx.d directorys. I have tried all these and just don't seem to be
>able to get it to work.
>
>Firstly, DHCP works fine. Secondly, I can configure the box manually
>with route add. Thirdly, I have managed to kludge it with an init.d
>script but would really like to know why I can't get it to work the way
>it's supposed to.
>
>Interfaces method.
>
>Here's what I have in my /etc/network/interfaces file;
>
>==============
># This file describes the network interfaces available on your system #
>and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
># The loopback network interface
>auto lo
>iface lo inet loopback
>
># The primary network interface
>auto eth0
>
>iface eth0 inet static
>address 192.168.0.42
>netmask 225.225.225.0
>gateway 192.168.0.1
>==============
>
>This doesn't work. When the machine boots it sets the static IP okay and
>the netmask but refuses to add the gateway. Lets assume everything up to
>the 'auto eth0' is correct. I've also tried;
>
>iface eth0 inet static
>address 192.168.0.42
>netmask 225.225.225.0
>network 192.168.0.0
>braudcast 192.168.0.255
>gateway 192.168.0.1
>
>and...
>
>iface eth0 inet static
>address 192.168.0.42
>netmask 225.225.225.0
>up route add default gw 192.168.0.1
>
>and...
>
>iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.42
> netmask 225.225.225.0
> gateway 192.168.0.1
>
>and...
>
>iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.42
> netmask 225.225.225.0
> up route add default gw 192.168.0.1
>
>None of the above has had any effect on the routing table.
>
>I've also tried adding an executable file to the if-up.d which contains
>the single line; route add default gw 192.168.0.1
>
>This didn't work either. Now I'm not overly convinced that this is how
>the if-up.d directory is supposed to work but it's how I understood it
>after reading the file format on 'interfaces'.
>
>Also, this isn't the only box I've configured where I've run across this
>problem so I can't see it being specific to the machine I'm currently
>working. All the boxes have been installed from the basic netinstall
>disk downloaded at various time over the last couple of years. The
>latest was downloaded a couple of days ago.
>
>If anyone can offer some pointers as to where I'm going wrong I'd
>appreciate it.
>
>thx.
>--
>np
>
>
>
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