router And linux

[Shawn Badger]

What distro are you using? There is always away to set it up without
resorting to adding to a separate script.

On Feb 5, 2008 2:50 PM, Michael Havens <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:

> IO've been investigating how to make this always reset correctly (was
> thinking
> of putting a line in a startup script) when I happened upon dhclient. This
> is
> installed in my system, Can I use it? I was thinking thaat perhaps it is
> already in use because of howq when I initially installed the router it
> worked. What are your thoughts?
>
> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 6:14 pm, Shawn Badger wrote:
> > run in the shell
> >
> > sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.1
> >
> > for your setup. but this will not persist past a reboot. Then you can
> find
> > out where in you particular distro to set the default gateway
> permanently.
> >
> > On Feb 5, 2008 10:58 AM, <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:
> > > as you've learned the linux box will now see the router  after the
> linux
> > > box's ip was made static however it still would not see the internet.
> I
> > >  then noticed a button in which I could view the routing table and the
> > > word 'gateway'. The gears then started  creaking and I realized that
> the3
> > > linux box needs a gateway to tell it what ip address to look at. ( I
> > > think that is hows to explain it if I am right at all).  The mnan page
> > > for ifconnfig doesn't show anything special and neither does  apropos
> > > gateway. Could someone help?
> > > What really upsets me is that the linux box wasz automagically
> detected
> > > when i first set it up!!!!!!
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