jens wrote, > Ok. SIOCADDRT is the ioctl call which adds a route. My guess is that the > error comes when the script is trying to add the default route, i.e. the > default gateway that's specified isn't reachable on the network your > ethernet card is connected to (at least according to the route that's set > for the card). Why don't you send along your /etc/init.d/network and > perhaps the output of 'ifconfig' and 'netstat -nr' after the networks > script has run.
Script started on Mon Aug 23 13:54:27 1999 hawkins:~# modprobe tulip hawkins:~# /etc/init.d/netbase start Setting up IP spoofing protection...done. Starting base networking daemons: portmap inetd. hawkins:~# /etc/init.d/network start SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable hawkins:~# hawkins:~# hawkins:~# cat /etc/in inetd.conf init.d inittab inputrc hawkins:~# cat /etc/init.d/network #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 IPADDR=134.161.248.148 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=134.161.248.0 BROADCAST=134.161.248.255 GATEWAY=134.161.1.1 ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} route add -net ${NETWORK} [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 hawkins:~# hawkins:~# hawkins:~# hawkins:~# ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C0:77:41:E6 inet addr:134.161.248.148 Bcast:134.161.248.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf880 hawkins:~# hawkins:~# hawkins:~# netstat -nr Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 134.161.248.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 hawkins:~# hawkins:~# hawkins:~# ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C0:77:41:E6 inet addr:134.161.248.148 Bcast:134.161.248.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf880 hawkins:~# hawkins:~# hawkins:~# netstat -nr Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 134.161.248.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 > Ok, well if that's helping you not get nasty messages then that's gotta be > a good thing, right! :) btw, this is the stock base2_1, with nothing more (i do have a minimal sstem on another hard disk that I can stick in, if necessary ) rick