Question

[Rick Sivernell]

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:35:51 -0500
"David Bandel" <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/5/06, Rick Sivernell <res005ru at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > Last night, late late, I upgraded FC5 to RC6, all seems to work nicely except
> > Firefox. Sylpheed gets mail, but no internet thru firefox. restarted the network,
> > got the following:
> > [root at RSivernell ~]# /etc/init.d/network restart
> > Shutting down interface eth0:                              [  OK  ]
> > Shutting down loopback interface:                          [  OK  ]
> > Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
> > Bringing up interface eth0:  RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> > Error adding address 192.168.0.40 for eth0.
> >                                                            [  OK  ]
> > [root at RSivernell ~]# ifconfig
> > __tmp1804289383 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:2F:7F:17:EC
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:113187 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:113187 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >           RX bytes:12669207 (12.0 MiB)  TX bytes:12669207 (12.0 MiB)
> >           Interrupt:185 Base address:0x6000
> >
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:FC:8F:6F:5A
> >           inet addr:192.168.0.40  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >           inet6 addr: fe80::250:fcff:fe8f:6f5a/64 Scope:Link
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:41818 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:17481 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >       Is there a problem here? I do not know tmp1804289383 and
> > Bringing up interface eth0:  RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> > Error adding address 192.168.0.40 for eth0.
> >
> 
> The RNETLINK error is just telling you eth0 is configured with an IP
> address.  But having an IP address won't get you to the Internet if
> you don't have a default gateway.
> 
> any of the following should show you your gateway address:
> netstat -rn
> route -n
> ip route show (or: ip ro sh)
> 
> You are looking for a line that starts 0.0.0.0 or default via ...
> 
> Without that, you're going nowhere.
> 
> ip ro add default 192.168.0.1 via eth0
> (substituting your default gw for 192.168.0.1 should do it for you)
> or:
> route add default gw 192.168.0.1
> 
> If you still have problems, check /etc/resolv.conf and make sure you
> have good nameserver lines.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel

David

  Many thanks, it is all there as above, I found the problem, a service was not
turned on, ip6tables. It is now up and going. I did ifconfig  __tmp1804289383 down
also, this had no effect on internet connection, just clean something up.

-- 
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
ricksivernell at verizon.net
Registered Linux User