Re: [LUG] Router problem - maybe not.

[Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:52:08 +0100
Robin Cornelius <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This morning the panel icon showed that the network was up. I still
could not log on to the internet. I switched off the router. The icon
changed to netword down. I switched the router back on. The icon
changed back to network up, only now I could log on to the internet etc.

> 
> Might be worth checking the following before and after
> 
> "ifconfig" to get interface info

The following results are while I can still log on.

ifconfig

[neil@localhost ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:46:8F:17:C1
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::213:46ff:fe8f:17c1/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3843 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6262 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2885902 (2.7 MiB)  TX bytes:829104 (809.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0xd800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2435451 (2.3 MiB)  TX bytes:2435451 (2.3 MiB)

route

[neil@localhost ~]$ /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface 192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     10
0        0 eth0 127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U
0      0        0 lo default         mygateway.ar7   0.0.0.0
UG    10     0        0 eth0 [neil@localhost ~]$


dhclient eth0

[neil@localhost ~]$ /sbin/dhclient eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

can't create /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases: Permission denied
SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied
Open a socket for LPF: Operation not permitted

If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before
requesting help.

If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server@xxxxxxx
mailing list, please read the section on the README about
submitting bug reports and requests for help.

Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
help directly to the authors of this software - please
send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
the README file.

exiting.

and yes, I can ping to 192.168.1.1

> Do you have web configuration on the router as well? can you log in to
> this (possibly via the 2nd windows pc) and does it have any diagnostics
> etc. eg ping. Can you ping back to the address given by ifconfig.
> 
I don't understand that question, but I can ping to 192.168.1.2

Does any of this help?

Neil Winchurst

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