Re: Can we make NM automatically handle the need for proxy arp?

["Miles Lane" <miles lane gmail com>]

On 8/27/06, Ted Lemon <Ted Lemon nominum com> wrote:
> On Aug 27, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Darren Albers wrote:
> > So is the real issue here that dhclient is aborting completely when it
> > gets an invalid default route or is it accepting all the information
> > just rejecting the bad gateway?
>
> I seriously doubt that it's aborting.   It is trying to install the
> route, and failing.   So it seems like it ought to be the case that
> Linux has an IP address configured on the interface, but no default
> route.   It may be that the reason Miles in particular is having a
> problem is that his machine has three network interfaces; it's
> possible that it has a default route on one of the other interfaces,
> and therefore is sending all its packets out that interface.   One
> easy way to check would be for Miles to send us the output of "netstat
> -rn" run on his machine, while the failure mode is going on.

Here you go:

netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
192.168.21.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth1
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 lo