drivers/net/usb/asix - Re: WS-UL220G USB 2.0 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter in Dell Inspiron 700m laptop

[David Curtis]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:01:23 +1000
Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

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> 
> # route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 172.22.22.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     29     0        0 eth2
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     29     0        0 eth2
> 0.0.0.0         172.22.22.2     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth2

A metric of 29 is definitely an indication something is wrong, I believe that anything over 16 (hops) is considered unusable. And anyway the metric for the network segment (172.22.22.0) you're on should be 0. The unused default network (169.254.0.0) on my jaunty box has a metric of 1000. Something is definitely setting supposedly unused segments to 29. What's doing that? I dunno.  

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David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>