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by **Jeffrey T. No** » Thu, 23 Sep 1993 04:20:03

I'm hoping this is a real simple problem that someone can
help me fix. I'm trying to get a linux box onto the net and it isnt
working so hot. At boot up time, the rc comes up with the error:
SIOCADDRT: network unreachable
SIOCADDRT: network unreachable

If i try to telnet, it just hangs for a while, if i take the cable
out and try, it comes up with a bad cable error. Its the MCC p10 installation
with a p12 kernel. This is what rc.inet1 looks like:
HOSTNAME=`hostname`

/usr/etc/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
/usr/etc/route add 127.0.0.1

IPADDR="128.123.1.55"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
NETWORK="128.123.1.0"
BROADCAST="128.123.1.255"

/usr/etc/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
/usr/etc/route add ${IPADDR}
/usr/etc/route add ${NETWORK}
/usr/etc/route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1

Thats it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Oh, BTW: its a 486-25
with a wd8003 8-bit card. Heres another question, at bootup, it seems
to autodetect everything that goes into the CONFIG in net/inet in the
kernel source, I defined it all anyway and compiled, but do i really
have to? Thanks,
Jeff

by **Michael S Finger** » Thu, 23 Sep 1993 12:57:36

Quote:> I'm hoping this is a real simple problem that someone can
>help me fix. I'm trying to get a linux box onto the net and it isnt
>working so hot. At boot up time, the rc comes up with the error:
> SIOCADDRT: network unreachable
> SIOCADDRT: network unreachable

> [ etc ... ]

I had the same problem and all I did was to put the broadcast in the ifconfig
line before the netmask, and that seemed to fix the problem.

So instead of:

Quote:> /usr/etc/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}

try:
/usr/etc/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK}

Whether that is a 'correct' solutionor not, I am not sure. But it works.

-Mike

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