"Kevin Ross" wrote: > > 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.
I added it this way: iface eth0 inet static address 142.130.48.235 netmask 255.255.252.0 gateway 142.130.48.1 Seems to work now (except for ping). > > 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 th > e way. Did. I get stars (no returns) past my gateway. Thanks, Peter
