On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:28 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 21:15 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 19:00, Ken Schneider wrote:
There has to be some device you plug into, unless your ISP ran a v e r y l o n g cat 5 cable to your place.
Just as an FYI, where I used to live in Sweden all the flats had an ethernet socket in the wall. Just plug'n'play. There doesn't always have to be a DSL or something
Which is why I was asking for further info. The original post stated that eth1 was not coming up/connecting
Correcting myself.. it was a restart of the interface that caused the default route to disappear. Since he is using a fixed address he will also need to manually set the default route. If Ronald could supply the results of route -n it would help. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge