> 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?
Yes, you need a default route. Try adding:
up route add default gw 142.130.48.1
down route del default gw 142.130.48.1
after the "netmask" line.
> So I manually added a default route:
> Now the web works, but strangely ping still fails:
Try using traceroute to see if the pings are being blocked somewhere along the
way.
-- Kevin
