On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:05 +1100, Shelagh Manton wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > > Shelagh Manton wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I've been reading up on networks and comparing what the NAG from TDLP has > >> to say and what my computer settings look like. Um... I did find a few > >> differences (problems?). I will be upgrading to ADSL sometime soon and > >> wanted to be more prepared as my ISP don't know nothing about Linux. > >> > >> One thing which worries me is when I ask the route command to add or del > >> a network or IP address I get this message. > >> > >> SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument > >> > >> or SIOCDELRT: No such process > >> > >> When I ask it for information "route -e" I get back a table which > >> includes an IP address I did not give it, and is not from My ISP. And of > >> course I can't delete it using the "route del 163.254.0.0" command > > > > Are you sure it's not "169.254.0.0" rather than "163.254.0.0"? > > > > What's the output of "netstat -rn" and what are the routes you want to > > add/remove? > > > > Paul. > > > Yes, when I look more carefully, that is the very IP address. I wanted to > follow the instructions of the NAG where it says to add the 127.0.0.1 lo > address with the route add command. The address it shows at present is > 127.0.0.0 which is the lo network, and does not have 127.0.0.1 at all. Is > this a problem? > > [shelagh@pandorasbox shelagh]$ netstat -rn > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt > Iface > 220.244.163.3 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 > ppp0 > 192.168.32.0 192.168.32.3 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 > eth0 > 192.168.32.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > eth0 > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 > eth0 > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > 0.0.0.0 220.244.163.3 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 > ppp0 > > What I'm eventually hoping to achieve is understanding of NAT so that my 2 > sons machines can access the internet through my internet connected > computer. But, just one slow step at a time, otherwise my brain might > explode. This all looks fine. You still didn't say which routes you wanted to add or delete. You can stop the zeroconf route appearing appearing by putting "NOZEROCONF=yes" in /etc/sysconfig/network; next time your machine reboots, it'll be gone. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
