3c900 Installation Problem

Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Sat Nov 6 10:55:21 1999


On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Goran Arbanas wrote:

> I am having problems configuring my 3c900 card on Red Hat Linux 6.0.  I
> noticed that the default gateway is missing in the output of route -rn
> (listed below), but when I try to "route add default gw 151.198.16.1", I get
> "SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable." message.  I apologize for not having the
..
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:08:A9:E5:DB
>           inet addr:151.198.17.208  Bcast:151.198.17.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

Simple routing problem: your default route is not within the network
address.  Your netmask or IP address is wrong.

This is unrelated to the device driver.

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov