On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 11:28:51AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 11:12:59 -0500
> "Judith Elaine Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > We have a home LAN behind a Linksys DSL router (model BEFSER41).
> (snip)
> > The Debian box can ping a laptop on the LAN successfully (by IP
> > address); it cannot ping the outside world. A laptop can ping the
> > Debian box successfully (by IP address), as well as anywhere else in
> > the outside world .
> (snip)
> > I've commented out all his nameservers from
> > resove.conf and confirmed I my ISP's nameserver specified.
>
> So, you're using the Linksys DSL router to provide NAT'd access out to the
> Internet, correct? All DHCP assigned systems can ping internal and
> external hosts, correct?
Yes & yes.
> Sounds like the statically assigned Debian
> system doesn't have a default gateway assigned. What does "/sbin/route
> -n" return on the Debian system?
The answer is below. Should the Gateway be the IP address of the
Linksys box? I'll be trying that before I leave in 15 minutes. Thanks
very much for the quick pointer.
judith
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.250 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
When I looked at this a few weeks ago I noticed the loopback wasn't
there. I added it by hand so the output of route -n was as follows,
but had the same problems (not surprisingly).
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 lo
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.250 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
And FYI...
$/sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:64:6B:97
inet addr:192.168.1.30 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6115 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3797 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x9000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
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