[PLUG] Urgent! Lost network connection after upgrade

wes plug at the-wes.com
Sun Aug 4 03:24:21 UTC 2013


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:57 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 18:09:56 -0700
> Paul Munday <paulm at freegeek.org> dijo:
>
> >you might be able to manually configure the networking something like:
> >
> >ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.125 netmask 255.255.255.0
> >route add default gateway 192.168.0.1
> >
> >you will need to get the gateway from the working machine and guess an
> >ip not in use
>
> According to netstat -nr the desktop's gateway is 192.168.0.1. I have
> only half a dozen printers and a couple of computers and it has long
> been my practice to put a label with its IP address on each device.
> Hence, it was easy to see that 192.168.0.5 was free. So I did:
>
> #ifconfig eth0 192,168,0,5 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add default
> gateway 192.168.0.1
>
> And the result was:
>
> route: Unknown host
>
> I guess that's because it can't connect to the gateway because there is
> no net connection.
>
>
that was supposed to be two different commands:

ifconfig eth0 blah blah blah

and then

route add blah blah blah

-wes



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