Hi, This is not the right mailing list for such subjects, please post to other lists, i.e. suse-linux-e@suse.de Anas * Steven Boker [Jan 21. 2003 18:20]:

Dear kind autoinstallers,

I have been unable to connect my newly installed SUSE 8.1 to my local network: no pings in or out. I used YAST2 to set it up and based my setup on another SUSE box that I had previously setup on the same network without a hitch. As an aside, I've been using and admin'ing various unices since the 80's, although I still consider myself to be something of an amateur, given that there are only so many hours in the day.

This is an out-of-the-box clean install using the latest SUSE 8.1 cdroms purchased last week. This is a known-good hardware situation.

I have a small LAN with a router and switch that connects to broadband. I'm not running DNS or DHCP locally, just static addresses locally and remote DNS. Here's the output of ifstatus:

datran6:/etc/sysconfig/network # ifstatus eth0 eth0 is up 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100 link/ether 00:30:48:12:43:38 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.12/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::230:48ff:fe12:4338/10 scope link Configured routes for interface eth0: default 192.168.1.1 - - Active routes for interface eth0: 192.168.1.0/24 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.12 default via 192.168.1.1 0 of 1 configured routes for interface eth0 up

As you can see, the box has a static ip of 192.168.1.12 (this is an ip unique to this machine) and the broadcast looks good. I'm not sure about the inet6 address, as I was under the impression that this wasn't fully implemented yet. The only thing I see that might be fishy is that there are 0 of 1 configured routes up.

Here's a look at the interfaces using ifconfig:

datran6:/etc/sysconfig/network # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:12:43:38 inet addr:192.168.1.12 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:fe12:4338/10 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:920 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:21032 (20.5 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x3400 Memory:fc222000-fc222038

lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:356 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:356 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:30922 (30.1 Kb) TX bytes:30922 (30.1 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

That all looks correct to me, again with the caveat that I don't know what inet6 addressing is doing here.

So, here's the routing table as reported by route:

datran6:/etc/sysconfig/network # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Still looks good. What about the routing table as reported by netstat?

datran6:/etc/sysconfig/network # netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface ^C

Ouch. Nothing. And I had to Ctrl-C to get back to the prompt. That just doesn't make sense to me unless there isn't a daemon running that should be.

So I tried adding a line to the /etc/networks file to see how netstat would respond.

datran6:/etc/sysconfig/network # cat >> /etc/networks local 192.168.1.0 datran6:/etc/sysconfig/network # netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface local * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0 ^C

Still had to Ctrl-C out of netstat, but it at least now reports the correct first line with 192.168.1.0 translated as "local". I just don't understand why netstat can't find the routing table that is correctly reported by route.

Is there a daemon that YAST2 isn't starting? I have tried with and without inetd (a long shot, admittedly). What am I missing here?

I thank you for your patience and kind attention.

Best regards, Steve Boker

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