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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Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
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