Re: Can't ping

[W Paul Mills <Paul-NOT@Mills-USA.com>]

Helge Stenström (KI/EAB) wrote:
> > From: W Paul Mills [mailto:Paul-NOT@Mills-USA.com] 
> > Sent: den 7 augusti 2006 16:22
> > Subject: Re: Can't ping
> > Helge Stenstrom wrote:
> > > Response from `route -n` on my trouble machine (Debian Sid, 
> > >  IP=147.214.195.137):
> > >   localhost:/mnt/hda9/helge# route -n
> > >   Kernel IP routing table
> > >   Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags  Metric Ref   Use Iface
> > >   192.168.0.2     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0       0       0 sl0
> > >   147.214.195.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0       0       0 eth0
> > >   0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0       0       0 sl0
> > >   0.0.0.0         147.214.195.1   0.0.0.0         UG    0       0       0 eth0
> > Looks to me like you have two default routes, the first of 
> > which is bogus. You should only have one default.
>
> How do you see which routes are the defaults?
> Which file is used to config this?
> I have search trough /etc and subdirectories for the string "sl0" 
> but didn't find it.
> The following two commands enabled networking, but I don't want to write 
> them every time I boot:
>  route del 192.168.0.2
>  route del default sl0
> My /etc/network/interfaces is old, but worked. It looks like this:
>   auto lo
>   iface lo inet loopback
>   auto eth0
>   iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> Could /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up have anything to do with my problems? It 
> changed on 2006-07-20, i.e., as a result of the system upgrade.
>
> Thank's a lot for the hints so far!
> Helge


Best I can tell the dev sl0 is created by the program slattach. Are you 
using slip to connect via the serial port to another computer?



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