Not getting a default route
 

Recently, my Fedora Core 4 configured laptop stopped getting a default route via dhcp. I had this same problem back about 6 months ago with my FC3 setup (see: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=304307). Since then I reloaded the box with FC4 and everything was fine until this past week when again, it stopped accepting a default gateway. I know it's an issue with my linux because I have a VMWare session running Win2K and it boots up and gets a default gateway just fine from the same dhcp server. I can manually add the default route (route add default gw x.x.x.x) and everything is fine until the next reboot.

Any suggestions? I take this machine to customers to do presentations and it's embarrassing to keep asking them what their default gateway is before we can begin our meeting.

W.

After you boot and the gateway is not set look into /var/log/messages. Look if you can find something that may be related to the problem. If unsure, post last fragment of the log.

I am having the exact same problem. It seems like everything was working fine until I did 'yum -y update'. I have since attempted to recomplile and reload ieee80211 and the ipw2200 driver. No luck. I am also using FC4.

Mark

Also, nothing interesting in my messages file.

Here it is anyway.

Oct 27 09:21:16 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Oct 27 09:21:16 localhost dhclient: DHCPNAK from 192.168.1.1
Oct 27 09:21:16 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Oct 27 09:21:17 localhost dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
Oct 27 09:21:17 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Oct 27 09:21:21 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Oct 27 09:21:21 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Oct 27 09:21:21 localhost NET[4217]: /sbin/dhclient-script : updated /etc/resolv.conf
Oct 27 09:21:21 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.104 -- renewal in 40940 seconds.
Oct 27 09:22:55 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40

Mark