I believe he's onto something there...routable addresses would be 172.16.254.81 thru 172.16.254.94 on 28 bits...and there's that pesky rule about having your gateway on the same subnet as the node. :) ------Original Message------ From: Eduardo Grosclaude Sender: centos-bounces at centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Bring up Networking in Single User Mode Sent: Oct 7, 2009 1:35 PM On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:28 PM, ML <mailinglists at mailnewsrss.com> wrote: > Nate, > >> ifconfig ethX IP_ADDRESS netmask NETMASK >> route add default gw IP_OF_GATEWAY > > OK, so I was correct, > > I am doing > > ifconfig eth0 172.16.254.80 netmask 255.255.255.240 > route add default gw 172.16.254.1 > > I am getting Network is unreachable. That's correct. Write down 80, 1 and 240 in binary. With a /28 mask, your IP address and your gateway are in different subnets. -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T