YDL & router -- progress, maybe

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:14:52 -0500, Ron McCall <ronald.mccall@snet.net> 
wrote:

> Do you have a line like GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 in /etc/sysconfig/network?

	I do not. GATEWAY= [blank] is all; right below it may be another 
problem : GATEWAYDEV=ppp0

	I take it I should change both, right? (Verizon DSL uses PPPoE,
in case that's relevant; I had a Verizon DSL account before, when YDL 
2.3 connected through the apple hub, and I have a Verizon DSL account 
here, trying to connect through the linksys router.)

> That should provide your default route.  There may also have been a
> line like GATEWAYDEV=eth0 (or similar) line in the same file for YDL
> 2.3.  It is not present in YDL 3.0.

My netstat -rn output is as follows (MSS, Windows and irtt columns
omitted):

[root@bender network-scripts]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   Iface
192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U       eth1
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U       eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U       lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG      eth0

	Oho! Does that mean that, by 0.0.0.0 addresses, the web site was 
talking *neither* of the gateway *nor* the Genmask addresses (which I 
tried), but of the destination?? Never once framinit thunka that!

	Do I take it aright that you have the same router as I do, or 
that it doesn't matter, or both? IOW, should I edit my file (whatever it 
is that "netstat -rn" displays), or otherwise change my configuration to 
make that match? *And* that doing "pico /etc/sysconfig/network" will let 
me make changes to match, and that I should? 

	And an especially dumb one: having done "cp network 
network.bkup" while in /etc/sysconfig, do I need to get rid of 
network.bkup either before or after I try the modifications? (I copied 
the netstat -rn display to a file created from the home root prompt with 
"pico netstat.rn.bkup")
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