[SLE] Multiple gateways cos internet - how???!!
Anyone out there who can help me? I tried to set up an internet connection in SuSE Linux 6.3 - done that many times before. Trying to get to any web site just tells me route not found. For half a night I could not work out what the problem was or what was different on that particular configuration. Eventually I found out that if a default gateway was assigned to the nic - the internet connection was not able to assign a gateway to the ip settings. Now I could use wvdial and change the scripts that it deletes the default gateway before dialling and restores it after exit. But I don't believe that this is the only way. and I want to use the kde dialler anyway. NT seems to have no probs with multiple gateways. The only documentation that I could find told me that in my case imp in deep s*** and I would need a considerable amount of tcp/ip knowledge to get around this problem. But i can not believe that it can be that difficult! Is there anybody out there who can advise me what to do, or point me in the right direction towards how-to's, readme's books or websites? You would make my day! <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#d8d0c8> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone out there who can help me?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tried to set up an internet connection in SuSE Linux 6.3 - done that many times before. Trying to get to any web site just tells me route not found. For half a night I could not work out what the problem was or what was different on that particular configuration.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Eventually I found out that if a default gateway was assigned to the nic - the internet connection was not able to assign a gateway to the ip settings. Now I could use wvdial and change the scripts that it deletes the default gateway before dialling and restores it after exit. But I don't believe that this is the only way. and I want to use the kde dialler anyway.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NT seems to have no probs with multiple gateways. The only documentation that I could find told me that in my case imp in deep s*** and I would need a considerable amount of tcp/ip knowledge to get around this problem. But i can not believe that it can be that difficult!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there anybody out there who can advise me what to do, or point me in the right direction towards how-to's, readme's books or websites? You would make my day!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY>
Hello, You can try this link: http://www.gnulinux.com/ldp/installguide/node8.shtml or the following has more to do with your specific case: http://www.gnulinux.com/ldp/howto/PPP-HOWTO-25.shtml Or somewhere else on www.gnulinux.com I think that you need to add a route for your modem or ppp0 Something like route add -net <ipaddress> netmask <ipaddress> gw <gatewayaddress> dev ppp0 (command wrapped around) Check the route man pages. The article mentioned that you want to make your dial up your default gateway and add the route on your ethernet network card. Hope this helps (I will need to set this up on my laptop eventually :). Tony Zafiropoulos CTiTEK.com www.FixMyLinux.com Office: 314-726-5080 Fax: 314-726-5085 Cell: 314-504-3974 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Walter Dresen wrote:
Anyone out there who can help me?
I tried to set up an internet connection in SuSE Linux 6.3 - done that many times before. Trying to get to any web site just tells me route not found. For half a night I could not work out what the problem was or what was different on that particular configuration. Eventually I found out that if a default gateway was assigned to the nic - the internet connection was not able to assign a gateway to the ip settings. Now I could use wvdial and change the scripts that it deletes the default gateway before dialling and restores it after exit. But I don't believe that this is the only way. and I want to use the kde dialler anyway. NT seems to have no probs with multiple gateways. The only documentation that I could find told me that in my case imp in deep s*** and I would need a considerable amount of tcp/ip knowledge to get around this problem. But i can not believe that it can be that difficult!
Is there anybody out there who can advise me what to do, or point me in the right direction towards how-to's, readme's books or websites? You would make my day!
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Hello,
You can try this link: http://www.gnulinux.com/ldp/installguide/node8.shtml or the following has more to do with your specific case: http://www.gnulinux.com/ldp/howto/PPP-HOWTO-25.shtml
Or somewhere else on www.gnulinux.com
I think that you need to add a route for your modem or ppp0
Something like
route add -net <ipaddress> netmask <ipaddress> gw <gatewayaddress> dev ppp0 (command wrapped around) Check the route man pages.
The article mentioned that you want to make your dial up your default gateway and add the route on your ethernet network card.
Hope this helps (I will need to set this up on my laptop eventually :).
Tony Zafiropoulos CTiTEK.com www.FixMyLinux.com Office: 314-726-5080 Fax: 314-726-5085 Cell: 314-504-3974 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Walter Dresen wrote:
Anyone out there who can help me?
I tried to set up an internet connection in SuSE Linux 6.3 - done that many times before. Trying to get to any web site just tells me route not found. For half a night I could not work out what the problem was or what was different on that particular configuration. Eventually I found out that if a default gateway was assigned to the nic - the internet connection was not able to assign a gateway to the ip settings. Now I could use wvdial and change the scripts that it deletes the default gateway before dialling and restores it after exit. But I don't believe that this is the only way. and I want to use the kde dialler anyway. NT seems to have no probs with multiple gateways. The only documentation
Is there anybody out there who can advise me what to do, or point me in
Thanks for getting back to me. Just when I thought nobody is going to.
I'll have a look at the links you gave me when I have the time for it. For
the moment I am quite happy with a little script I made.
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route del default gw my_default_gateway
kppp
route add default gw my_default_gateway
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If you don't need access to subs while you are connected to the internet
this should work just fine. (so no need to become an tcp/ip expert) In kde
the script doesn't even show in the taskbar, which is nice. Just drag the
script to the kde application bar and assign a nice icon to it :)
PS: I was talking bull when I said nt has no problems with it. If I connect
to the internet at work in nt4 I can no longer telnet our ciscos 5k.(which
are on a different subnet). But I can still browse the lan. I did not
realize this before cos I never tried it - ipconfig still shows two default
gateways but only the internet one is working for the duration of the
internet connection. nt just doesn't tell you about the swap.
recap: SuSE - Linux - can connect to the internet, can ping the internet but
cannot reach any websites with kppp or wvdial cos of default gateway
assigned to the nic.
All I have to do now is to work out why not one person at work can
understand a joke which I heard on german TV:
Chinese walks along and shouts: Sulplise! Sulplise!
Rrrrrrrrrr!
: ) - : ( - well I think it's funny anyway. - But then again -
I'm german.
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