On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:54, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello folks:
> Thanks for your suggestion when I was moaning about my problems with Getnet. I've switched to Deru, but I've already got problems. As you would suspect, they don't help you with Linux, just Windows. I was able to get it working with a direct connection to my laptop in its Windows incarnation, but that's not much good. I have an old PC running Mandrake 7 that I was using as a firewall - it has two NIC's - so I can get Internet service on every machine in my network. That's the machine that doesn't want to work for me.
> The problem is they changed me from a static IP (Getnet had that) back to DHCP (which I originally had working for my Qwest DSL service.) The device on the Cisco modem is eth1. That goofy eth1 wouldn't let me change its IP address with ifconfig; it was stuck at that fixed address. I finally ended up rebooting it, and the address was gone. I also set its eth1 script to include the lines "ONBOOT=yes" and "BOOTPROTO=dhcp" as recommended in some article I found in a Google search. Now the trouble is that I can't change the routing with the route command. First it wouldn't let me remove the old Getnet static IP at all until I removed it from the "/etc/hosts" file and rebooted. Now I can't add a default root at all. For one thing, I don't know what to use for a gateway designation. I added "gateway1" to the "hosts" file with an address of "0.0.0.0", but I don't know if that's correct or not. Then if I try to say "route add default gw gateway1" it says "Invalid argu!
ment." (Which one?) That probably doesn't make sense anyway. If, on the other hand, I try "route add default dev eth1" the error is "No such device." Not true! But the problem may be that eth1, according to ifconfig, has no IP address. But I can't set it to any specific address, because Deru's DHCP server is supposed to give us one. But how do we get that address? I vaguely remember something about the "dhclient" command, but that's lost in the mists of time (didn't write down the parameters!) Also, it seems someone in PLUG told me I shouldn't need to run dhclient.
> Any suggestions?
>
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first off, ditch the gateway addresses - dhcp will handle that for you.
don't add any routes to the routing table...dhcp will handle that too.
on redhat, you would need the following in /etc/sysconfig/network
GATEWAYDEV=eth1
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=yes
HOSTNAME='your.host.name'
GATEWAY=
then
locate ifcfg-eth1 (on redhat it is in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts)
edit it...
device='eth1'
broadcast=""
ipaddr=""
netmask=""
network=""
bootproto='dhcp'
onboot = yes
then save it
then try... ifup eth1
Craig
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