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I just installed fedora core 6 and during the installation I told it to configure hostname, gateway, and ip through dhcp, but when I can't seem to connect to the internet. help?
It looks like your ethernet adapter has two subnets assigned to it. I'm not sure if that could hurt the process or not. I would say you should also do a
Code:
route del 169.254.0.0
It will remove the 169.254 subnet.
Try it without removing it first though.
-Josh-
Last edited by MaizeNBlue2; 12-09-2006 at 01:13 AM.
I changed the default gateway to 192.168.0.1 and it worked for a few minutes then it died. When I tried to remove the 169.254 subnet it said it was not possilbe
Try pinging 192.168.0.1 (your router) if you can ping the router and the default route is still set to go through it then the problem may be with the router and not your machine. Try to also ping some host on the Internet by IP (e.g. 216.239.37.104 instead of google.com). If you can ping by IP but not name that means your DNS is screwed up.
Also, the correct syntax for deleting the 169.254 route is:
route del -net 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0
You must run this as root. If it does not work, please post the error message.
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