add default gateway through eth0:avah interface?

[Donatas G.]

Does anyone have any idea? Of course static IP's are a workaround, but the 
blessed avahi-autoipd is a workaround around static IP's, and I like that...

DG

On Saturday 09 February 2008 01:08:20 Donatas G. rašė:
> I was trying to setup internet connection sharing by utilizing the
> automatically acquired ip's by my two cable-connected feisty boxes, but
> failed. I guess it is because the gateway gets added through eth0 interface
> and not through eht0:avah pseudo interface:
>
> ================================================
> dg at pieva:~$ ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:8D:50:0A:37
>           inet6 addr: fe80::250:8dff:fe50:a37/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:43209 (42.1 KiB)  TX bytes:19886 (19.4 KiB)
>           Interrupt:17 Base address:0xe400
> eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:8D:50:0A:37
>           inet addr:169.254.3.150  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           Interrupt:17 Base address:0xe400
> # Added the default gateway:
> dg at pieva:~$ sudo route add default gw 169.254.9.24
> dg at pieva:~$ route
> Kernel IP routeing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> Iface link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0       
> 0 eth0 default         169.254.9.24    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0      
>  0 eth0 default         *               0.0.0.0         U     1000   0     
>   0 eth0 ================================================
>
> So I had to resort to static IP addresses...
>
> Is there a way to make the "route add" command specify the eth0:avah
> interface?
> --
> Donatas Glodenis
> http://dg.lapas.info



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