Quella
2005-03-02, 09:20 AM CST
I do not have the machine in foront of me right now (at work), but I'm wondering if someone can provide some suggestions on my issue. First, I got a new wireless card (eth1) up and running last night, and I also have a hard wired Ethernet (eth0) also that I was using before getting the wireless up and running.
I can see that the Wireless (eth1) card connects to the AP and all, yet I do not seem to get a route outside of the box. I have not yet looked at my route table, but I thought that the OS would be smart enough to try one interface (eth0) and discover it down, than it would check the next (eth1) to send its packets. When I try a ping I get "No Destination to host" trying to reach my gateway AP.
I thought it would have been easy enough to bring up eth1 (wireless) and disable physical wired Ethernet (eth0). I also changed the IP on the wireless to be that of what was the wired IP (192.168.0.25), and I changed the hard wired (eth0) to .26 in the event I needed to bring it up if I had issues.
So my question is this... Should I look at my route table and modify anything wanting to go out eth0 (hardwired Ethernet) and change it to eth1 (wireless), or would it be better to change the interfaces themselves. Make the wireless (eth1) to be eth0, and eth0 (wired) to eth1.
Looking at ifconfig, btoh interfaces have correct IPs, subnet masks, and gateways configured. Also, DNS is valid. If I bring up the older wired connection, all if back to normal and I have access to the network and Internet.
Suggestions or comments? I did a search here for routing and other issues here but did not see anything that seemed to answer my question.
Quella
I can see that the Wireless (eth1) card connects to the AP and all, yet I do not seem to get a route outside of the box. I have not yet looked at my route table, but I thought that the OS would be smart enough to try one interface (eth0) and discover it down, than it would check the next (eth1) to send its packets. When I try a ping I get "No Destination to host" trying to reach my gateway AP.
I thought it would have been easy enough to bring up eth1 (wireless) and disable physical wired Ethernet (eth0). I also changed the IP on the wireless to be that of what was the wired IP (192.168.0.25), and I changed the hard wired (eth0) to .26 in the event I needed to bring it up if I had issues.
So my question is this... Should I look at my route table and modify anything wanting to go out eth0 (hardwired Ethernet) and change it to eth1 (wireless), or would it be better to change the interfaces themselves. Make the wireless (eth1) to be eth0, and eth0 (wired) to eth1.
Looking at ifconfig, btoh interfaces have correct IPs, subnet masks, and gateways configured. Also, DNS is valid. If I bring up the older wired connection, all if back to normal and I have access to the network and Internet.
Suggestions or comments? I did a search here for routing and other issues here but did not see anything that seemed to answer my question.
Quella