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joey

Member

From: Austria

Registered: 2007-02-19

Posts: 4

route-table gone after reboot

I recently installed Arch 0.8 on my home-machine (Arch-newbie...).
After configuring the system, everything ran fine.

But now I'm stuck at a problem (it's not a big deal but very annoying ):
Everytime I boot/reboot my computer, route just shows me an empty table.

ifconfig eth0

This command tells me, that everything is fine with my eth0-device. DHCP is up and running
and already assigned me an ip-address.

route

This command just shows me an empty route-table, so I'm able to start my internet-connection
(and also getting an IP) but not to ping anything or something (missing routing information).

After executing

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up

everything is fine again, route shows me what I expected.

My /etc/rc.conf is configured on DHCP.
After searching the forum, I also tried

sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

without any success.

My exact question is: Is there any way to fill the route-table right after boot-up?
I think the solution is very simply, but if you need me to post some conf/log-files => just let me know

thx for your help

Last edited by joey (2007-02-19 21:12:04)

joey

Member

From: Austria

Registered: 2007-02-19

Posts: 4

Re: route-table gone after reboot

Has nobody some ideas?

Some more details:
I use a ZyXEL-Prestige 600-series broadband-modem with xDSL.
This thing assigns me an IP, just like a DHCP would do (this is working fine...).
I also tried to use a default gateway...

Maybe it's not my rc.conf but my entire network configuration?
Here is a snippet from my rc.conf:

# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
#   - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
#   - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
#
# Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
#
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0)
#
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
#   - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
#gateway="default gw 10.0.0.138"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

If you have any idea, please let me know...