No route or default gateway assigned?

From: Aaron Kulbe (abkulbe_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/31/03


Date: 31 Oct 2003 06:53:59 -0800

This is a fresh install of SuSE 9.0 Pro. This also happened on 8.2
Pro. This has only happened with SuSE, but no other distro.

I have a Orinoco Silver PCMCIA wireless NIC. It's eth1, and set for
DHCP. It gets an IP address, netmask, and DNS server addresses. But
it never gets the route address (default gateway). I have to assign
this manually every time I boot.

The DHCP server in this case is a Cisco 806 router. None of the
Windows clients or the other Linux clients has any issue.

Now this works, but kind of defeats the purpose of DHCP. I'd like to
know what I'm missing here, and how I can fix it so that this works
right, so that I don't have to manually assign a route with whatever
network I'm on.

As I said before, this is specific to SuSE. This never happened with
Red Hat, Mandrake or Gentoo. They would get all the necessary stuff
from the DHCP server, with no intervention required.

Thanks,

Aaron Kulbe



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