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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-1.12.* and "Network is unreachable"
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:14:54
Message-Id: 49bf44f10609230709rc2ba365j7969cc72b866a184@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-1.12.* and "Network is unreachable" by Walter Dnes
1 > > >This all I have for eth0 is /etc/conf.d/net :
2 > > >
3 > > >routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1"
4 > > >config_eth0="192.168.1.2"
5 > > >
6 > > >Can anyone help me with this?
7 > > >
8 > > >- Grant
9 > >
10 > > I'm very sorry about the subject line. It should have read:
11 > >
12 > > "baselayout-1.12.* and "Network is unreachable"
13 >
14 > I don't see the original, so I'm replying to this message. My
15 > (somewhat non-standard) setup has the following lines...
16 >
17 > config_eth0="192.168.123.252 broadcast 192.168.123.255 netmask 255.255.255.248 mtu 1454"
18 > routes_eth0=("default via 192.168.123.254")
19 >
20 > I think that you should specify netmask and the broadcast address in
21 > "config_eth0". First, we need to know...
22 > - what IP address range is allocated to the machines behind the router?
23 > - what IP address does the router display to the machines behind it
24 > (presumably on eth1)?
25 >
26 > I've dealt with a multi-port router sitting behind a single-port ADSL
27 > modem, and I'm aware that you have to take care that they don't step on
28 > each other's address ranges.
29
30 Thank you very much. That fixed it, I needed to specify the netmask.
31
32 - Grant
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