[ILUG] Still battling Gentoo!!

[SnSmedia]

Thats sounds interesting, I think I remember setting lo to something not
realising it at the time that it meant loopback. How would I solve that?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Philp" <kevin at cybercolloids.net>
To: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Still battling Gentoo!!


> I am not an expert on routing but you appear to have your gateway set up
both
> eth0 and lo. This could be the route (sorry for pun) of your problem. Can
> someone more knowledgeable confirm that the issue here is routing? You
should
> have one gateway only and that should be on the interface that connects
you
> to the rest of the world - probably eth0
>
> I looked at several machines here and I see one gateway entry for each
machine
> and its not on lo.
>
> On Monday 20 March 2006 12:06, SnSmedia wrote:
> >Hi,
> >Thanks for getting back to me.
> >To answer the other suggestions I got:
> >*Yes I can ping the IP address of the card.
> >*The result from route
> >Destination    gateway    genmask            flags    metric    ref
use
> >  iface 192.168.1.0    *            255.255.255.0    U        0
0
> >    0        eth0 loopback        localhost    255.0.0.0        UG
0
> >           0    0        lo default            192.168.1.1    0.0.0.0
> > UG        0            0    0        eth0 *I do not have a host.conf
file
> > and resolv.conf is exactly the same as live cd resolv.conf
> >
> >I have gone over my net file and I had made a couple of spelling mistakes
> > but I fixed them and rebooted but still no joy. I used genkernel so
> > forcedeth is part of kernel. I can ping from the live cd no prob. I have
> > set the IP to a static one, I did not emerge dhcp if that makes a
> > difference. Rapidly running out of hair!!--
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