Resolved, sort of: [PLUG] Network is unreachable

Evan Heidtmann clydefrog at adnap.no-ip.com
Sun Dec 26 22:23:10 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 13:30 -0800, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> On Sunday 26 December 2004 8:27 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Richard Steffens wrote:
> > > So, while I'm back on the air, I'm not really sure if adding the default
> > > gateway had anything to do with it, or if the network restart was somehow
> > > different coming from YaST.
> >
> >    Yup, it was the lack of a default gateway. I forgot to add that check to
> > my original message.
> 
> Why I say, "sort of," is that as far as I know, yesterday was the first time a 
> default gateway was ever entered for the machine. Why it worked up until the 
> other day, I can't explain.

AFAIK, DHCP normally provides the default gateway. So up until now, DHCP
was doing its job.

Just out of curiosity, what does 'route -n' output?

Evan




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