network configuration problem

Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach johannes-maria at t-online.de
Tue Apr 8 16:37:04 UTC 2008


Hello,

many thanks for your help.

The problem was already solved with the first answer I read
by Steve Bertrand,
...
> You essentially gave yourself an address outside of the gateways LAN
> address scope, and then proceeded to route all unknown traffic to yourself.
>
> You probably want:
>
> # ifconfig rl0 192.168.2.100 255.255.255.0
>
> ...and
>
> # route add default 192.168.2.1

Tanks also for your hint:

> Then, for name resolution:
>
> # echo "nameserver ip.of.isp.dns" >> /etc/resolv.conf


I'm also thankful for all the other replies to my question, of course;
always happy to learn something.


Regards,
Johannes-Maria




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