topic Re: Setting Gateway correct in Operating System - HP-UX

Setting Gateway correct

Luis Varon — Tue, 13 May 2003 13:58:33 GMT

Dear Ladies and Gentleman,

i have a problem regarding an hpux Server which i had installed some time ago for a customer.

The problem is that even all the parameters are set correctlye in the file /etc/rc.config.d/netconf and are identically to an second machine, where the gateway works, the machine does not have set the default gateway correctly.

If i start sam and differ beetween both machine than the only diferrence i can see is that the one with the working interface show the correct default gateway, the other one shows "not defined".

If i set the gateway manually "route add default ..." it works perfect. Although i can handle it via an startscript so that the machine sets the default gateway automatically.

Has someone an idea why it does not work automatically?

Regards

Luis

Re: Setting Gateway correct

Helen French — Tue, 13 May 2003 14:17:46 GMT

Did you try setting the gateway from SAM? Are you getting any errors on /etc/rc.log while configuring networks during system startup?

Re: Setting Gateway correct

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Tue, 13 May 2003 14:19:53 GMT

I guess, you can try by set_parms addl_netwrk and see if it makes any difference.

-USA..

Re: Setting Gateway correct

Pete Randall — Tue, 13 May 2003 14:20:24 GMT

Luis,

What do your gateway entries in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf look like? Have you compared them to the working machine?

Pete

Re: Setting Gateway correct

John Dvorchak — Tue, 13 May 2003 14:23:38 GMT

You have to edit /etc/rc.config.d/netconf and add the default router in so the router information survives a reboot. Here is an excerpt from my netconf file:

ROUTE_DESTINATION[0]=default
ROUTE_MASK[0]=""
ROUTE_GATEWAY[0]=123.123.123.1
ROUTE_COUNT[0]=1
ROUTE_ARGS[0]=""

Of course you would put your actual default router address where my 123.123.123.1 is and don't forget the ROUTE_COUNT[0]=1 as this tells the system that the router is on the LAN and not the host itself.

Re: Setting Gateway correct

Jim Butler — Tue, 13 May 2003 14:42:24 GMT

ps -ef | grep gated

Make sure gated is not running.

Then, note the interface number of your card in lanscan.

That number cooresponds to the [0] in the post immediately preceeding this one. Set your gateway according to that post.

(If gated was running, make sure you turn it off in netconf)

Re: Setting Gateway correct

Jim Butler — Tue, 13 May 2003 14:42:39 GMT

Re: Setting Gateway correct

Luis Varon — Tue, 13 May 2003 14:45:45 GMT

Thanks for all the answers.

where can i edit the settings im SAM? I haven't found a place to change it yet.

For the others, the settings in the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file are:

LOOPBACK_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1
DHCP_ENABLE[0]=0
ROUTE_DESTINATION[0]=default
ROUTE_MASK[0]=""
ROUTE_GATEWAY[0]="10.85.1.2"
ROUTE_COUNT[0]="1"
ROUTE_ARGS[0]=""
GATED=0
GATED_ARGS=""
RDPD=0
RARP=0
IP_ADDRESS[1]=10.85.102.2
SUBNET_MASK[1]=255.255.0.0
INTERFACE_NAME[1]=lan1
BROADCAST_ADDRESS[1]=10.85.255.255
INTERFACE_STATE[1]=up
DHCP_ENABLE[1]=1

Is there anything wrong?

Thanks

Luis

Re: Setting Gateway correct

Chris Fadrowski — Tue, 13 May 2003 18:54:21 GMT

what network interface card are you using? lan1, lan0 etc..... You can find this by ioscan -fnC lan or lanscan. You could try resetting the card in lanadmin.

Re: Setting Gateway correct

Chris Fadrowski — Tue, 13 May 2003 19:05:04 GMT

i almost looks to me like you are assigning info to two different network cards one and zero..

Re: Setting Gateway correct

V. Nyga — Wed, 14 May 2003 13:32:15 GMT

Hi Luis,

in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf it should look like this:
ROUTE_DESTINATION[0]=ip-address of destination
ROUTE_MASK[0]="255.255.0.0"
ROUTE_GATEWAY[0]=10.85.1.2 (ip-address of your gateway to the destination?)(test it without "")
ROUTE_COUNT[0]="1"
ROUTE_ARGS[0]=""

That works for me!

As Shiju mentioned, if anything wrong there should be an error in /etc/rc.log.

Regards
Volkmar