[ubuntu-uk] ADSL problem

[David Pashley]

On Dec 16, 2006 at 16:07, Dave Briggs praised the llamas by saying:
> On 16/12/06, David Pashley <david at davidpashley.com> wrote:
> 
> > Run "ip link"
> 
> OK:
> 
> dave at dave-desktop:~$ ip link
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:13:d3:cd:a6:fa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 3: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop
>     link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
> 
> > "ip addr show dev eth0"
> > The line you're interested in here is the line that starts inet. If you
> > don't or it starts 169.254 then you don't have an ip address assigned.
> 
> dave at dave-desktop:~$ ip addr show dev eth0
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:13:d3:cd:a6:fa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 192.168.1.2/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
>     inet6 fe80::213:d3ff:fecd:a6fa/64 scope link
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 
> 
> Think that's all ok on the network front. What should I check next?
> 
> Thanks for all this help.

So we've been given an IP address from somewhere. Let's see if they have
given us a default route. We can do this by running "ip route"

mojo-jojo david% ip route
10.187.182.224/27 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.187.182.233 
default via 10.187.182.225 dev eth0