Re: Default Gateway with Manual Setting

["Martyn J. Pearce" <fluffy sixears co uk>]

No, you are not missing anything, I was.  I missed the existence of the
gateway setting on the addresses of the IPv4 page, and went straight to the
routes dialogue (which duly gives me a gateway option...).  Now I've been
pointed to the right gateway option, it's all good.

I was trying to add the routes directly to mimick my setup as per route -n on
a known good box.  But, with the gateway set in the right place, there's no
need; indeed, I don't need the routes dialogue at all.  It's now empty.

Thanks for the assist,

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:08:54PM +0100, Graham Lyon wrote:
> Is there a particular reason that you're manually configuring these two
> routes? The 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 route is implied by the subnet mask
> and so shouldn't be needed, and the 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 route is created by
> setting the default gateway box on the ipv4 settings page to the address of
> your gateway (192.168.0.12, in your case). Or am I missing something?
> 
> 2009/10/4 Martyn J. Pearce <fluffy sixears co uk>
> 
> > Apogolies if re-asked, I have searched the mailing-list archive to no
> > avail.
> >
> > I am running a new ubuntu install on a netbook (Eeepc surf), with wired &
> > wireless networking available, both domestic manually-configured networks
> > (no
> > dhcp).  I have added Manual profiles to both wired & wireless.  I cannot
> > get
> > the default gateway (192.168.0.12) to configure, however.
> >
> > I add two routes in the route config panel; one for
> > 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
> > (no gateway), and one for 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 (gateway 192.168.0.12).  Having
> > left
> > the edit dialogue, and applied, there is no difference to the routing table
> > as
> > displayed with route -n.  If I re-enter the routes edit panel, I find that
> > it's collapsed the routes into one, being 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(gateway
> > 192.168.0.12); but there's no hint of the gateway in the route config.
> >
> > I have tried checking and unchecking the "use this connection only for
> > resources on its network" (I'm sure it should be unchecked, but I tried
> > both);
> > it makes no difference.
> >
> > I'm sure I'm being stupid, could somebody take pity and enlighten me as to
> > what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > I attach the relevant lines from /var/log/daemon.log (grep NetworkManager),
> > I've checked the one bug mentioned therein; that is related to publishing
> > of
> > offline mode rather than setting of default gateways.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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