Can't reach internet directly, can via ssh to another 'puter on my net.

[josephkk]

Problem box:
Has 2 realtek rtl8168/8111 gigabit nic on mainboard (yes, that troubled
one), added an Intel gigabit nic. Connect (cable) only Intel nic.
Cannot see outside my net, no ping, nothing. This is a fresh install of
OS 11.4 LXDE.

Can ping and ssh local machines. I can browse the internet with ssh to
firefox on another machine.

I have rebooted my router (WRVS4400N) and updated its DHCP assignment
tables. No change.

Any ideas on what is going on?

?-)

[nrickert]

Your problem is that you don't have a default route.

This will probably work:

Yast --> Network Devices --> Network Settings

Select the realtek adaptor. Click on EDIT. Go to the "General" tab.

Look at the selections for "Activate Device". It is probably set to "At Boot Time" or similar. Change that to "On Cable Connect."

Do the same for your Intel adapter.

Explanation. You have multiple adapters. The standard network setup is to give a default route to one of those adapters, and only a local LAN route to the others. When you have the realtek configured at boot time, it gets the default route. Since you aren't actually using that, the default route doesn't work. By switching to "cable connect" a default route will not be assigned until a connected cable is found. The default route will go to the first device found with a connected cable.

At least, that seems to be how it works, based on my experience. Give it a try and see if it helps.

[josephkk]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:56:03 GMT, nrickert
<nrickert@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>Look at the selections for "Activate Device". It is probably set to
>"At Boot Time" or similar. Change that to "On Cable Connect."
>
>Do the same for your Intel adapter.

Did that for all adapters. Rebooted. Only the Intel has a cable at
reboot. No change. R&R cable, still no change.

Sounded reasonable. I tried deconfiguring the realtek adapters as well.
No help.

Any other contributions, anybody?

?-)

[glistwan]

Problem box:
Has 2 realtek rtl8168/8111 gigabit nic on mainboard (yes, that troubled
one), added an Intel gigabit nic. Connect (cable) only Intel nic.
Cannot see outside my net, no ping, nothing. This is a fresh install of
OS 11.4 LXDE.

Can ping and ssh local machines. I can browse the internet with ssh to
firefox on another machine.

I have rebooted my router (WRVS4400N) and updated its DHCP assignment
tables. No change.

Any ideas on what is going on?

?-)

Most likely your default gateway is incorrectly set up. Check with

/sbin/route -n

or

ip route

or compare outputs from

traceroute 8.8.8.8

from the machine that internet doesn't work and the machine from which you run firefox with ssh.

Best regards,
Greg

[josephkk]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:56:02 GMT, glistwan
<glistwan@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>josephkk;2435001 Wrote:
>> Problem box:
>> Has 2 realtek rtl8168/8111 gigabit nic on mainboard (yes, that troubled
>> one), added an Intel gigabit nic. Connect (cable) only Intel nic.
>> Cannot see outside my net, no ping, nothing. This is a fresh install
>> of
>> OS 11.4 LXDE.
>>
>> Can ping and ssh local machines. I can browse the internet with ssh to
>> firefox on another machine.
>>
>> I have rebooted my router (WRVS4400N) and updated its DHCP assignment
>> tables. No change.
>>
>> Any ideas on what is going on?
>>
>> ?-)
>Most likely your default gateway is incorrectly set up. Check with
>
>Code:
>--------------------
> /sbin/route -n
>--------------------
>
>or
>
>Code:
>--------------------
> ip route
>--------------------
>
>or compare outputs from
>
>Code:
>--------------------
> traceroute 8.8.8.8
>--------------------
> from the machine that internet doesn't work and the machine from which
>you run firefox with ssh.
>
>Best regards,
>Greg

On the bad machine the only visible NIC is eth1, the others (mainboard
realtek rtl8111/8169) are de-configured.

Bad machine results:

/sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0
eth1
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0
eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

ip route
192.168.0.0/23 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.120
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link

/sbin/traceroute
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets using UDP

and an error message of no network, sorry i didn't capture it.

Good machine has two configured NICs, i don't remember the make/model.

Good machine results:

/sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
192.168.1.0 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
eth0
192.168.0.0 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
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0

ip route
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.111
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.112
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link
192.168.0.0/16 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.102
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0

/sbin/traceroute
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets using UDP
1 WRVS4400N-Cisco-linksys (192.168.1.1) 1.307 ms 0.717 ms 0.666 ms
2 SpeedStream5100-DSL-modem (192.168.0.1) 1.555 ms 1.290 ms 1.782
ms
3 bras1-l0.scrm01.sbcglobal.net (151.164.185.12) 11.215 ms 10.257 ms
9.681 ms
4 dist1-vlan50.scrm01.pbi.net (64.171.152.66) 11.077 ms 9.394 ms
9.397 ms
5 151.164.93.212 (151.164.93.212) 8.881 ms 10.830 ms 8.231 ms
6 12.122.114.21 (12.122.114.21) 12.035 ms 14.367 ms 12.422 ms
7 12.249.231.14 (12.249.231.14) 63.112 ms 64.238 ms 63.046 ms
8 64.233.175.223 (64.233.175.223) 13.639 ms 13.127 ms 12.849 ms
9 google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8) 12.369 ms 13.751 ms 12.953
ms

==================================

OK i am seeing some differences. How do i set the default gateway
(192.168.1.1 it seems).?

?-)

[robin_listas]

On 2012-02-02 04:44, josephkk wrote:

> Bad machine results:

Please use code tags to post computer text.

>
> /sbin/route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.254.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth1
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo

You don't have defined a default gateway. A line that starts with 0.0.0.0

>
> OK i am seeing some differences. How do i set the default gateway
> (192.168.1.1 it seems).?

You are using DHCP. Revise the configuration of your router, it should tell
your computer the correct gateway to write. If that fails, use manual
configuration of your computer, not automatic, and define the values.

--
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)

[glistwan]

To manually add default gateway You can use this command :

# /sbin/route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth1

and You should immediately get internet access. To make it permanent do as Carlos says. You can configure static IP addressing using YaST or NetworkManager applet You're using. Anyway the best solution IMHO would be to figure out why You don't get the default gateway from DHCP.

Best regards,
Greg

[surgie2]

Hi... I have two of those realtek nics that I just upgraded to (gigabit adapters). What I noticed is that DHCP did not like them. However, the drivers are fine. Many of the stories I read about them talked about the driver... they are fine. You will have to enable them at boot, set them to ethernet just below that (in a dropdown), set your default gateway and DNS to the router IP, I believe enable IP forwarding (if I'm not mistaken), and if necessary switch to KNetworkManager then back to ifup (seemed to stimulate them). I am running iSCSI, internet, and updater. I have all three nics connected (2 8111's) and an onboard 10/100. One card was claimed by iSCSI, the other by updater/the system, and the last was issued to surfing. Works great!

[surgie2]

Also, I disabled IPV6 addressing. Some hardware isn't equipped to handle it, so I was just being on the safe wide. And, I know it shouldn't matter, but before you set them to static, set the DHCP to IPV4 only, then to static. I noticed the system card throwing IPV6 address even after the main IPV6 addressing was disabled... (but the greyed out DHCP setting said 'both 4 & 6' ... the only thing that could have stated it was ok to do. It was kind of like a redundancy thing, I guess.

So, with so many variables in the settings, it's easy to not have everything just right. It's not the cards, or driver!! :-)

[lwfinger]

On 02/03/2012 01:46 AM, surgie2 wrote:
>
> Also, I disabled IPV6 addressing. Some hardware isn't equipped to handle
> it, so I was just being on the safe wide. And, I know it shouldn't
> matter, but before you set them to static, set the DHCP to IPV4 only,
> then to static. I noticed the system card throwing IPV6 address even
> after the main IPV6 addressing was disabled... (but the greyed out DHCP
> setting said 'both 4& 6' ... the only thing that could have stated it
> was ok to do. It was kind of like a redundancy thing, I guess.
>
> So, with so many variables in the settings, it's easy to not have
> everything just right. It's not the cards, or driver!! :-)

Be careful before following this advice, which I consider to be wrong.

All HARDWARE can handle IPv6. To the hardware, it is just a string of bits. In
addition, everything in later versions of openSUSE is fully IPv6 compatible.
Anyone that is having trouble has a brain-dead ISP whose DNS servers claim to
support IPv6 and then fail to do so correctly! That causes the timeouts on every
DNS lookup.

To me, the correct way to solve the problem is to edit /etc/resolv.conf and
change the nameserver entries to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, or some other public name
server site. The ones I quote above are Google's public servers.