[CLUE-Tech] Getting There With FC2

[JD. Brown]

Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant.

To add your gateway. Use this command.

# route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0

In this case, make sure that the router / firewall with IP address 192.168.1.1 is connected to the
same network as interface eth0!

Once done, you'll need to update your /etc/sysconfig/network file to reflect the change. This file
is used to configure your default gateway each time Linux boots.

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=Whatever!
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 (example)

To add your route to the table.

route add -net 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 

To delete a mistake from your route table,do.

route del -net 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 
(Only do this if you are deleting a mistake!)

The file etc/sysconfig/static-routes will also have to be updated so that when you reboot the PC,
will not reinsert the route. 

Delete the line that reads:

eth0 net 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1 
(Only do this if you are deleting a mistake!)

Remember, Once you are done adding routes to your table. Type in netstat -nr to view your table.



> I had found some docs at RH's site which led me to believe that all I had
> to do was fix /etc/sysconf/network, but that has made no difference. 

> Note that what I did was replace it the file from my RH8 install.

This should work. Only if you change your file permissions, Under FC.

Your PPP chat script. Well, this one should not be any different from the RH version. In a
nutshell.
I talked to my friend who still uses PPP on a daily baisis, he has had no problems with
configuring it when he made the switch from RH9 over to Fedora. I'm no expert with PPP and chat
script editing, but I did find this link that may help you:

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/PPP-HOWTO/automate.html


I hope this helps and again. I'm sorry for the confusion at first.



JD




















--- "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:42:03 -0800 (PST)
> "JD. Brown" <brownstixzz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Now, Let's get back on track here.
> 
> Yes, indeed.
> 
> The eth0 question is specifically how to configure FC2 such that, on boot,
> I have a proper routing table. I can easily copy the values from my
> working RH8 install, meaning:
> 
> $ /sbin/route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface
> 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> eth0
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> 
> Note, this isn't what's in the routing table on FC2. What's currently in
> that matters not at all. The question is which configuration tool will
> *actually* update the config files properly, since the admin tools
> available from the menu don't; or, which file(s) do I edit manually to
> change the boot-time config to what I need.
> 
> Similarly to the routing table, I can get whatever other values I might
> need from `ifconfig etho0` on the working install (remember, this is in a
> dual-boot config, so the hardware is identical, and the LAN settings
> should be too).
> 
> eth0's IP address is OK. I believe the rest of the values in ifcfg-eth0
> are fine as well, since they came from my working RH8 install. It is
> already set to "load on boot", and that is working.
> 
> I had found some docs at RH's site which led me to believe that all I had
> to do was fix /etc/sysconf/network, but that has made no difference. Note
> that what I did was replace it the file from my RH8 install.
> 
> The issue with dialup networking is not "what tool can I switch to", it's
> "why doesn't the method I've been using successfully since RH5.1 not work
> under FC2". I want to continue to use it because it's simple, doesn't rely
> on hidden config files which are who knows where, doesn't drag in a pile
> of other software I don't need (like kppp does when invoked from Fvwm),
> and is trivially easy to invoke from an Fvwm button.
> 
> jed
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