[TriLUG] SuSE Neworking Issues

[Matthew Pusateri]

Why do you have the 169.254.0.0 address, and what interface is that  
on?  Why Linux distro's have started going down the stupid auto-config  
IP 169.254 idiocy that windows made popular I'll never know.  Show us  
the output of ifconfig -a not just that it is correct.  Also where is  
the server getting it's address from is it dhcp or static?  It's good  
your sanitizing the IP's but is this public or private address space  
for the server?



On Oct 6, 2008, at 11:20 PM, Warren Weber wrote:

> OK, I've pulled out more hair than I can afford to on this one, so I'm
> looking for someone to point out the obvious mistake I'm sure I've
> overlooked.
>
> Setup -- SuSE 10.2 server-to-be, IP address a.b.c.202, netmask
> 255.255.255.0, default gateway a.b.c.170
>
> Router -- LAN address a.b.c.17, netmask 255.255.255.0
>    WAN address a.b.c.170, netmask 255.255.255.0
>
>> From my server, I can ping the router's LAN address and browse it via
> its admin Web tool, but I cannot ping the WAN address nor get out on
> the Internet.  Two Windoze PCs connected to the same router (with
> the same default gateway) have no such problem -- they get out fine.
>
> ifconfig -a has eth0 UP and RUNNING with the correct IP address and
> netmask.
>
> netstat -rn has this ...
>
> Destination	Gateway	Genmask	Flags	MSS Window	I/F
> a.b.c.0	0.0.0.0	255.255.255.0 U	0	0		
> eth0
> 169.254.0.0	0.0.0.0	255.255.0.0	    U	0	0		
> eth0
> 127.0.0.0	0.0.0.0	255.0.0.0	    U	0	0		lo
> 0.0.0.0	a.b.c.170	0.0.0.0	   UG	0	0		
> eth0
>
> /var/log/messages ...
>
> ifstatus-route	Configure routes for interface eth0
> 			  default a.b.c.170 - -
> 			  169.254.0.0 - 255.255.0.0 eth0
> 			Active routes for interface eth0
> 			  a.b.c.0/24 proto kernel scope link src a.b.c.202
> 			  169.254.0.0/16 scope link
> 			  default via a.b.c.170
> 			1 of 2 configured routes for interface eth0 up
>
> OK, what am I missing?  I swear at one point I had this running but
> installed some updates and it stopped.  Oh yes -- I turned off IPv6.
>
> Any/all input welcome!
> Warren
>
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>
> Warren Weber
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