I rebooted woody after an uptime of 48 days to find my network
setup incomplete:
$ ping www.debian.org
PING www.debian.org (198.186.203.20): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
ping: wrote www.debian.org 64 chars, ret=-1
Here's my /etc/network/interfaces file:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 142.130.48.235
netmask 255.255.252.0
Anything wrong with that?
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I couldn't ping past my gateway.
A look at `route` shows:
$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
localnet * 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
So I manually added a default route:
$ sudo route add default gw 142.130.48.1
$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
localnet * 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 142.130.48.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Now the web works, but strangely ping still fails:
$ ping www.debian.org
PING www.debian.org (198.186.203.20): 56 data bytes
[C-c]
--- www.debian.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
Any hints appreciated.
Thanks,
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