Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 11:03 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
> Ken Schneider wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 10:38 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote:
> >>Bruce Marshall wrote:
> >>
> >>There is no time when everything is working, otherwise we wouldn't be
> >>having this conversation. :-) Assuming you mean when each machine
> >>can/cannot ping the other machines on the LAN...
> >>
> >>When things are not working (on the LAN), all machines are configured to
> >>use DHCP. Is there a way to tell what IP addresses have been assigned?
> >>
> >>When things are working (on the LAN), hplaptop is configured to use a
> >>static IP address of 192.168.1.63. The other two machines are configured
> >>to use DHCP. Same question as before.
> >>
> >>>Also the output of route -n on the laptop when it does and doesn't work.
> >>When not working (all machines using DHCP):
> >>
> >>hplaptop:/home/dhenson # 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
> >>169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
> >>127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> >>0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
> >>hplaptop:/home/dhenson #
> >>
> >>When working (hplaptop using 192.168.1.63):
> >>
> >>hplaptop:/home/dhenson # 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
> >>169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
> >>127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> >>hplaptop:/home/dhenson #
> >>
> > Seems that the opposite would be true as the second example has -no-
> > default route but the first example does. Perhaps the default route is
> > not set correctly in the first example. What is the address of your
> > router?
> 
> 192.168.1.1
> 
Then it seems that you are actually having a problem with your router if
you can't set the default route to it. What brand of router is it?

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998