installing stage 1 behind gateway

cyberfunk007 · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 23

Hi guys,

I admit i have not got verry far :oops:

but i am at the stage where i need to manually configure my IP and Routing table. The IP i have assigned to eth0 on my gentoo box is 192.168.0.4 and the gateways internal IP is 192.168.0.2.

It seems the route they have put in the install instructions if for a PC that is directly connected to the internet. I have tried copying some of the other routes on other internal machines i have at home, and the best I could do was for PING to resolve the domain i typed in (e.g www.gentoo.org) with 100% packet loss *blush*

I was wondering if someone tell me what the route is supposed to be for a machine that is connecting to the net through a gateway?

Cheers

Cyber

rincewind · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 5:10 am Post subject:

try: route add -net default gw 192.168.0.2 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1

and please post output from route -a and ifconfig ?

medic · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 7 Location: Johnstown, PA

Cyber,
have you ran the net-setup utility, not selecting the dhcp setup, and answered the questions?

if not try running

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.4 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.x.x

then run

route add -net default gw 192.168.0.2 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1

my netmask for ifconfig is 255.255.255.0 your may very slightly...

Tom

cyberfunk007 · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 23

thanks guys, i will give it a go when I get home tonight...

I did the ifconfig part, but I think where i went wrong was in the route part... I think i put

route add -net gw 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 metric 1

the netmask being the part i got wrong... I will give it another try tonight and let you know how i go.

Cheers

Cyber