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 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, 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!!!!!! > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >