On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 07:27 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon January 2 2006 5:10 am, Dave Howorth wrote:
The key word is 'reboot'. AFAIK, 'route' manipulates the running kernel, not the permanent settings. Set your gateway using Yast or by editing the network config files (sorry, I'd have to look it up to tell you exactly which one).
actually I did reboot, a number of times, and I also did if/up/down and network stop/start.
Sorry I obviously phrased that badly! What I meant was - you said that you did a reboot, and I'm saying that was what caused you to lose the effect of the route command. You made your system work in a way that doesn't persist over a reboot. You need to use a different technique to fix it permanently - use Yast or edit config files directly.
What I'm trying to say is, wired routing wasn't a problem, the network came up and stays up. Wireless configuration is more of that "black box" syndrome.. I've been working on it for 3 days, and I still had to do manual configurations to get it to work, and I don't know if it will work when I reboot.
Sadly, I don't think you'll find anybody that will disagree with you. Wired networking is inherently simpler and it's also been around in a relatively stable form for MUCH longer. So the configuration procedures are much better established and simpler for the user. But it sounds like you did get your wireless going. So you've found all the important factors. Now you just need to make the changes permanent. You're almost there. And IMHO, rebooting after you've made the changes is an excellent thing to do because it tests that you have made the right changes. If you don't reboot and next month do something else (change a printer?) and the month after do something else etc, then when you finally do reboot you may find a whole bunch of things stop working and you won't have a clue what the reason is. It could be any one, or any combination of all the things you've done since the last reboot. It's much easier to make sure each set of changes are persistent individually, in my experience. Cheers, Dave