Re: Help with network configuration

["Bob R. Taylor" <brtaylor sanfelipe com mx>]

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 20:50, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:54:22PM -0800, Bob R. Taylor wrote:
> > I have installed AlphaCore 0.9 on my LX164. The output from route -n is:
> > 
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination   Gateway     Genmask    Flags Metric Ref   Use  Iface
> > 192.168.0.0   0.0.0.0  255.255.255.0   U     0      0    0   eth0
> > 169.254.0.0   0.0.0.0  255.255.0.0     U     0      0    0   eth0
> > 
> > The destination 169.254.0.0 appears to come from the script in
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scrips/ifup-ipv6 file.
> 
> No, this is not an IPV6 address.  This is "zeroconf".  Try to look up on
> Google.  You may block that by adding NOZEROCONF to your
> /etc/sysconfig/network file but it should not really harm anything.
> OTOH you are missing a default route which means that you do not have a
> gateway.

I wound up deleting it. Could you give me the command to add a default
route? If I recall, 6.2 added this for me.

> > I also attempted to add localhost to the route
> > table without success.
> 
> What for?  Presumably you are on 192.168.0.0/24 network and
> 'ping localhost' works too (through an internal connection).

I'm comparing the output of route -n on my other computer running Red
Hat 6.2. I'm a total newbe regarding routing. I must add a book on the
subject to my library. I will not keep putting off upgrading my
computers again!

Thanks Michal, for your help. It is *much* appreciated!
>  
> Bob R. Taylor <brtaylor sanfelipe com mx>