networking bug?

[leon]

Are u running Breezy?

Chris Dawson <xrdawson at gmail.com> writes:

 | Can someone help me understand if network routing is not broken with
 | ubuntu.  I've configured a wireless card for DHCP and cannot seem to
 | select the eth1 device as the gateway device.  This means I don't have
 | a default route.  I cannot add it either:  sudo route add default gw
 | 192.168.1.1 returns "SIOCADDRT: Network is down" " sudo
 | /etc/init.d/networking restart" doesn't help this either.
 | 
 | This usually happens if I try to create a static IP for a local
 | network on my eth0 device, and do not specify a gateway.  If I do
 | this, and then attempt to stop that device and restart the eth1
 | wireless device, I cannot get the routing to work unless I reboot.
 | 
 | Thanks,
 | Chris
 | 

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