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Husker

Member

Registered: 2006-01-31

Posts: 8

Network Setup

Hi,

I just got Arch installed and booting to the base install. So far, so good.

I'm trying to get my network going so I can start installing packages.

I believe my network card (eth0) is working as I can ping the gateway (DSL modem).

In rc.conf, I have:

eth0="eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"

In resolv.conf I have two nameservers set to the proper IP's.

ifconfig shows the correct ip's and eth0 is up.

I can ping both 127.0.0.1 and I can also ping the gateway (DSL modem) at 192.168.1.1

I can not ping ip's past the gateway though. When I try to ping a known working IP on the net, I get:
connect: Network is unreachable

My DSL is fine, I am using it now on my laptop. I also have Ubuntu installed on this machine and if I reboot into Ubuntu, it is working there.

So, do you have any advice on things to check in Arch configs that would keep me from getting past the gateway ?? If I need to post more configs, please let me know what will help you help me.

Thanks

jrepan

Member

From: Estonia

Registered: 2006-01-30

Posts: 22

Re: Network Setup

After line:
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
must be:
ROUTES=(gateway)

By default it is
ROUTES=(!gateway)

Husker

Member

Registered: 2006-01-31

Posts: 8

Re: Network Setup

Thank you jrepan!

That was it. I removed the ! and restarted the network and I can now ping outside IP numbers.

I can't ping via domain name yet. I have my ISP's nameservers set in resolv.conf but can't ping google.com

I'm going to go eat some lunch and see if I can figure that out when I get back.

Thanks again 

Husker

Member

Registered: 2006-01-31

Posts: 8

Re: Network Setup

Network is working now. 

The nameserver issue was my own bad entries. A double check missed it but a triple check noticed the incorrect nameservers listed.

Thanks again jrepan, now on to installing some packages.  8)