[PLUG] Network configuration for Ubuntu 10.04

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 01:08:53 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 11/01/2010 04:47 PM, Jason Barnett wrote:
>> The only thing that springs to mind is to make sure there is not another
>> device on the network with that IP.
>>
>
> I pinged 192.168.0.253 and got no reply.
>
>> does your connection work if you manually assign the same IP that DHCP
>> assigns you?
>>
>
> No.
>
>> Oh yeah, are you able to ping the router?
>
> Yes.
>
>> What about a specific IP address on the net?
>>
>
> I don't have one to try, outside my router.
>
> One recommendation I found was to uninstall the default Network Manager
> and pick another one from those available from "add/remove" which I
> assume to by Synaptic.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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I suspect you might be missing the default gateway when you manually
assign the IP or the routing tables think that the other NIC should be
the default GW .. what does running /sbin/route show after you
manually assign an IP?



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