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Author: Wes Bateman
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Network Config Problem
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:15:10PM -0700, Ray Hauge wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I've been running Slackware 10.0 (was 9.1 but I upgraded with Swaret)
> That went just fine a while back. I hadn't restarted in a while, so
> maybe some package caused the problem (I only use the official servers,
> not linuxpackages.net or anything like that). Just this night I was
> installing the new kernel, and when I restarted, my network went down.
> When I did ifconfig, it was just blank. I had to manually bring up the
> interface, but even then nothing is really working other than ifconfig.
> I can't ping anything anymore.
>
> So, I booted back to my old kernel thinking I missed the support for my
> network card, but now my network doesn't work on my working kernel
> configuration. I checked /etc/rc.d and now there's a bunch of .new
> files. There's also an rc.S and rc.M. rc.inet1 was not executable, and
> that was the file that was set to bring up the network on the boot. I
> made that executable, and when I boot I get eth0 and loopback, but I
> still can't ping anywhere. I checked dmesg and there didn't seem to be
> any weird errors other than eth0 is running in permiscuous mode now.
> Another odd thing that happens now is that ldconfig is run on the boot.
> When I ran make modules_install, did that screw around with my rc files
> like this?
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Ray Hauge


Ray:

Check your routing tables:

route -n

See if you have a default route (starts with 0.0.0.0 in the leftmost
column.

From your description it sounds like your eth0 is now up (not sure about
why it's in promisc mode...you have snort or such running?). Can you
ping the local subnet, just not outside on the internet? That would be
default route.

I'm not familiar with how things are done in Slackware, but compiling
and installing a kernel and modules wouldn't be related to your rc
scripts I'm sure. Must have been some other package(s) that were
upgraded?

Wes

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