On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Cia Watson <ciamarie at my180.net> wrote: > > And on the above, the mask is: 255.255.255.255 I don't run dhclient or > anything so I'm not sure where the config file is, but I'd suggest that > in addition to what's already been suggested you probably want to change > the above to have a subnet mask matching what comes up under the ifup, > namely: 255.255.255.0 > How, pls? Latest effort: [root at mhrichter mhr]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:90:F3:D2:8D inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21e:90ff:fef3:d28d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5576135 errors:5 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:5 TX packets:3511245 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:7123318597 (6.6 GiB) TX bytes:414398292 (395.2 MiB) Interrupt:58 Base address:0xc000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:33279 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:33279 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:44053531 (42.0 MiB) TX bytes:44053531 (42.0 MiB) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08 inet addr:172.16.212.129 Bcast:172.16.212.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:59 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2304 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) [root at mhrichter mhr]# dhclient Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5-RedHat Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ /sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for vmnet8 not found. Continuing with defaults. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions: line 78: vmnet8: No such file or directory Listening on LPF/vmnet8/00:50:56:c0:00:08 Sending on LPF/vmnet8/00:50:56:c0:00:08 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1e:90:f3:d2:8d Sending on LPF/eth0/00:1e:90:f3:d2:8d Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on vmnet8 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPOFFER from 172.16.212.254 DHCPREQUEST on vmnet8 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 bound to 69.234.42.7 -- renewal in 247 seconds. [root at mhrichter mhr]# ping google.com ping: unknown host google.com [root at mhrichter mhr]# ping 192.168.0.1 PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 172.16.212.129 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable >From 172.16.212.129 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable >From 172.16.212.129 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3000ms , pipe 3 [[ So why is it going through the vmnet8 device ?]] [root at mhrichter mhr]# ip ro ls 172.16.212.0/24 dev vmnet8 proto kernel scope link src 172.16.212.129 69.234.42.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 69.234.42.7 default via 172.16.212.2 dev vmnet8 [[Why is the virtual network interface the default?]] [root at mhrichter mhr]# ifconfig vmnet8 down [root at mhrichter mhr]# ifc eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:90:F3:D2:8D inet addr:69.234.42.7 Bcast:69.234.42.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21e:90ff:fef3:d28d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5576170 errors:5 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:5 TX packets:3511277 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:7123321997 (6.6 GiB) TX bytes:414401782 (395.2 MiB) Interrupt:66 Base address:0xc000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:33300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:33300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:44055767 (42.0 MiB) TX bytes:44055767 (42.0 MiB) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08 inet addr:172.16.212.129 Bcast:172.16.212.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2414 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) [root at mhrichter mhr]# ip ro ls 69.234.42.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 69.234.42.7 [root at mhrichter mhr]# ping google.com ping: unknown host google.com [root at mhrichter mhr]# ping att.com ping: unknown host att.com [root at mhrichter mhr]# cat /etc/resolv.conf ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script search localdomain nameserver 172.16.212.2 [Huh??] If I kill the dhclient, shut down and restart eth0 and run dhclient again, it still binds to vmnet8, which I thought I'd shut down above. There is no dhclient.conf anywhere on the system – do I need to create one? (Seems like it....) So, how do I force the dhclient to use the DSL modem as its default gateway and the route to the internet?