On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:26:40AM -0600, Ben Stallings wrote: > I'm having trouble with the routing tables on my PowerBook, which shares a > local network with a PC, both running Linux. Here are the symptoms: > > 1. ifconfig looks fine -- identical on both machines, except for the IP and > NIC ID numbers. > 2. ppp works fine. > 3. The PC can ping the PowerBook, so it is on the network. > 4. When the PowerBook is running MacOS, it can ping the PC, so the problem is > limited to Linux. > 5. When I run route (as root) on the PowerBook, nothing happens. The headers > appear, but no entries appear at all, and I have to press ctrl-C to get my > prompt back. > 6. When I run netcfg (as root) on the PowerBook and try to save any changes, > I get the following error on the console: > > SIOCDELRT: No such process > SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable > > The real kicker is that I don't remember changing anything when this problem > began! :-( > > Yesterday I got it working briefly by logging into KDE as root and running > netcfg from there. Then I logged back in as myself and was able to connect > to the PC perfectly and transfer some files. Then I dialed in with ppp, and > as soon as my local network connections timed out, I was unable to reopen > them because the problem had returned. > > So is ppp to blame? How? What else should I try? --Ben Most likely the if-up scripts for ppp will reconfigure the network: - dns - default route (to go through ppp) Try rebooting the problem machine and run /sbin/route -n and post the result back. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020102/665afa3a/attachment.pgp