hi, I'm having some issues with my fedora 7 install.

actually, the install went fine, I was good for a couple of days, everything was working fine, and then all of a sudden the networking went out. Wasn't doing anything suspicious, just web browsing.

anyhow, on boot, bringing up the eth0 interface fails. I can bring it up manually, using ifconfig eth0 up [with netmask/gw args or not], but trying to add a default gateway doesn't work, I get:

# route add default gw 192.168.1.1
SIOCADDRT: No such process

ifconfig output looks like this (I can't cut and paste, so bear with the handwave):
link enca:Ehternet HWaddress....
inet6 addr
up broadcast runnning mulitcast mut:1500 metric:1
rx
tx
...
...


and otherwise the outpute of route or netstat -rn is empty aside from the dest/gateway/... headers



any thoughts? This is making me a bit irrated as I can't seem to do much to affect it either way.

thanks!

You aren't providing any information with your rendition of the ifconfig command.

You can copy in konsole, or redirect the output to a file and then copy it in an editor, or open the file in the web browser. I'll guess that you don't have a network device.

Even if you did, you need to have the static router on that device set up first before adding the default gateway.
It may already be setup for you.

Here I would need the jesnet route (line 1) before creating the default router (line 3)
If you are wondering, I edited my /etc/networks file. That is why the destination has a name instead of 192.168.1.0. I also entered the routers IP address in /etc/hosts.

The first two lines of the ifconfig output for you network device should look similar to this:
eth0 is the device name. These are private IP address. The router is at 192.168.1.1 (where almost everyone's home NAT router is).

At one time, I had two subnets. That is why the netmask is 255.255.255.128.

You can download the "Network Administrator's Guide (2nd. Ed.)" from the www.tldp.org website. It explains how networks work and are configured. You can download a pdf, Postscript or html based document. It is the same O'Reily book as in the book stores, just an earlier edition.

uh, nevermind I guess. I tried running through those docs, but nothing seemed to take, except when I configured everything manually down to nameservers.

then I ran dhclient and everything popped back up. weird, it didn't work before.