Connection problem - more information
Brian Gerst
bgerst at didntduck.org
Sun Jun 20 18:38:33 UTC 2004
Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On a spare drive, I did a vanilla install of FC2. All is happy and well
> (except for my mouse not working). No problems with networking or anything
> like that.
>
> This leads me to suspect that one of the rawhide updates has screwed my
> system which I was unaware of as I've not done a reset in ages.
>
> A few odd things have happened though
>
> /sbin/ifdown eth0 is fine
> /sbin/ifup eth0 gives this
>
> Determining IP information for device eth0 ... SIOCADDRT file exists
> Done
> RTNETLINK reports : Invalid argument
>
> /sbin/route -n looks okay
>
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.2.0 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
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
^^^^^^^
This is the problem. The current DHCP package is broken in that it
doesn't set the default gateway properly. You can manually fix it by:
route del default
route add default gw <router ip address> eth0
--
Brian Gerst
More information about the fedora-test-list
mailing list