Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Chris Carlen <crcarle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Carter wrote:
> I'm not sure I get the network configuration.  You're using static IP, not
> DHCP, right?  You need to tell it which actual machine should get your
> "outside world" packets, not just throw them onto eth0 and hope someone
> will take responsibility.  The residential gateway may do so, but that's
> not how routing is supposed to work.
>
> In yast2, select networking-advanced, and within that, routing.  It asks
> for a default gateway.  Fill in the IP address of your egress router (at
> home, your residential gateway) and everything will start working.  You
> want to see something like this:
>
> jimc ~ 3.3> netstat -r -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
> 128.97.4.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0         128.97.4.77     0.0.0.0         UG       40 0          0 eth0
>
> where 128.97.4.77 is the router to Campus Network Services, effectively the
> machine that's connected to our ISP.

Yes, I have it set right now, I had to go look at a Windows machine to 
figure out the gateway IP.  The funny thing is, having it set up wrong 
is working on the 7.3 box, but 8.1 wouldn't let me do it.

My home LAN was easy, because the router/firewall was sitting on my desk 
with the IP labelled right on it.  But here at work, I didn't know the 
gateway IP until I went searching.

Good day!

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Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
crcarle@xxxxxxxxxx