Re: Network was reachable, now unreachable, cann't even ping

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From: Roy Porter
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 23:18

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In article <754004070snz@scope.demon.co.uk> robin@scope.demon.co.uk writes:

>However, after dip has done it's stuff the command 'route add default
>gw gate.demon.co.uk' gives the error 'SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable'
>
I think this is the same as one of the problems I had, this is the 
article that helped me round the problem :-

> This comes from a problem in the current networking, in your start.dip 
> script add the following after dip /etc/demon.dip
> route del gate.demon.co.uk
> route add gate.demon.co.uk
> route add default gw gate.demon.co.uk

> and all will work

I didn't have the extra 'route add gate.demon.co.uk' in, after I did 
insert it it cured my problem.


Roy.
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