no internet

[Piotr Kirklewski]

Hi there
My network looks like this

INTERNET
|
|
Gateway(10.20.0.1)
|
|
LINUX-MACHINE(Centos 5.5 64bit)

I issued following commands:

ifconfg eth0 10.20.0.2 netmask 255.255.0.0
route add default gw 10.20.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0

I can ping the gateway (10.20.0.1) but not the outside world (4.2.2.2).

'Network is unreachable'

Why would that be ?

Regards

Peter

[Steven Schweda]

> My network looks like this

> I issued following commands:

Your opinions are interesting, but what does
the machine have to say? As usual, showing
actual commands with their actual output can
be more helpful than vague descriptions or
interpretations.

ifconfig eth0
netstat -rn

[Matti_Kurkela]

Since you can ping the gateway and your default gateway configuration command looks correct, the most likely cause is a problem at some point between the Internet side of your gateway and your Internet destination (4.2.2.2). Without knowing anything about your gateway and your Internet connection, it's hard to say anything more.

You probably already know that 10.*.*.* IP addresses are not globally unique and therefore a system using one of those addresses cannot access Internet without some kind of NAT in between, right?

MK

[Alzhy]

If you have other devices on your network taht is pointed to your gateway, acn those devices ping/access nodes on the Internet?

What kind of Gateway do you have? Is it a normal/ typical consumer Gateway/Router?


INTERNET
|
| (WAN-IP from ISP)
GATEWAY (Router)
| (Gateway IP)
|
| Your Local LAN

[Piotr Kirklewski]

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:EC:6D:DD
inet addr:10.20.0.2 Bcast:10.20.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1783 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2880399 (2.7 MiB) TX bytes:216505 (211.4 KiB)

[root@localhost ~]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
0.0.0.0 10.20.0.1 255.255.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
10.20.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

[root@localhost ~]# ping 10.20.0.1
PING 10.20.0.1 (10.20.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=4.65 ms
64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.925 ms
--- 10.20.0.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.925/2.790/4.656/1.866 ms


[root@localhost ~]# ping 4.2.2.2
connect: Network is unreachable

[Piotr Kirklewski]

It's a home network.
I use Linksys WRT54GL for gateway - there is no problem with the connection if I get the settings from DHCP or even set them manually.
But I was trying to set the IP and gateway fast form command line while doing certain installation and it did not work which made me curious on why ?

[Alzhy]

If you do it via DHCP.. what values are you getting for IP and route?

[Piotr Kirklewski]

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:EC:6D:DD
inet addr:10.20.20.198 Bcast:10.20.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7860 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2836 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3288249 (3.1 MiB) TX bytes:459431 (448.6 KiB)

[root@localhost ~]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
10.20.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 10.20.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


So what is this:

169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

?