Re: Gateway doesn't work.

[Sam Neth <sam neth com>]

Kevin D. Colby wrote:
> 
> Is the cable-modem stand-alone?  I'd like to see what a traceroute
> looks like from the linux box to an outside address.  Does it go to the
> cable-modem?  If not, check the linux box's default route (see 'route')
> 

Cable modem is standalone.

traceroute <ip of nameserver>

returns:

traceroute to <ip of nameserver> (<ip of nameserver>), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  www (<ip of linux machine>) 0.706 ms blah blah blah

(In other words straight to the bit bucket.)

route -n

returns:

Kernel IP routing table

Destination 	Gateway        	Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface

208.138.40.0   	0.0.0.0        	255.255.255.0   U     0      0        4 eth0
(my subnet)

127.0.0.0   	0.0.0.0        	255.0.0.0       U     0      0        2 lo

0.0.0.0     	208.138.40.1   	0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        2 eth0
		(cable modem address)

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