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Author: Craig White
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Subject: Unable to get online
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:10, FrankMandato wrote:
> Here it is:
>
> Destination      Gateway    Genmask          Flags    Metric    Ref   
>  Use Iface
> 68.98.10.64      0.0.0.0    255.255.255.240  U        0         0      0 
>   eth0
> 192.168.0.0      0.0.0.0    255.255.255.0    U        0         0      0 
>   eth1
> 168.254.0.0      0.0.0.0    255.255.0.0      U        0         0      0 
>   eth1
> 127.0.0.0        0.0.0.0    255.0.0.0        U        0         0      0 
>   lo

>
>    I have no idea where the 168.254.0.0 address came from, I don't 
> remember ever seeing that one in the past. I deleted that route a number 
> of times, but it just keeps coming back.

>
>    I also changed my IP address to 68.98.10.73, but the routing table 
> never changes, I tried adding that address manually, but I get an error 
> message that the netmask does not match the IP address, the netmask I 
> use is 255.255.255.240 for the new address.

>
> Thanks
>
> FrankM
>
>
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
> >What is the output of:
> >
> >route -n
> >
> >See if you can ping the default gateway from the Red Hat box.
> >--
> >Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
> >Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
> >http://www.camerontech.com/
> >(512) 454-3200
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "FrankMandato" <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 10:52 AM
> >Subject: Re: Unable to get online
> >
> >
> >>I ran this and it returned a 1, ip_forward is enabled.
> >>

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Thomas was right - you need a default gateway

edit /etc/sysconfig/network

make sure that you have the following lines in there...

GATEWAYDEV = eth0
GATEWAY = 68.98.10.65 (if that is your gateway address)

I'm assuming that the cox ip address should be something like 68.98.10.x
where x is between 65 & 79

also you need to make sure that you have Cox's name server addresses in
/etc/resolv.conf

i.e.
nameserver 68.2.16.30
nameserver 68.5.16.30
nameserver 68.1.208.30

and lastly,

this should all be automatic if you were configured to use DHCP on eth0

Craig