route troubles -- please help FIXED

[Jay Ridgley]

Tom H. wrote:

>> > Jay Ridgley Wrote: 
>> >I am using a laptop on both a wireless network and a wired network. It would be
>> > nice, I thought, to have two different names for it. So I changed the hostname
>> > just before bringing it up... BAD BAD! I have got the hostname back where it
>> > should be. However, I have no routes, at boot and can not get to my wired
>> > network. What should I do to get things back together?
> 
>> > I have tried adding the routes manually and route -n shows them correctly. But
>> > the network is still unreachable, even after stopping & starting networking. Of
>> > course, when I reboot after adding the routes they go away again. Are they not
>> > kept somewhere in a file that I can edit or configure?
> 
> If you are configuring your nics with Network Manager, you have to set
> your routes through its GUI (System-Preferences-Network Connections)
> 
> If you are configuring your nics with /etc/network/interfaces, add
> 
> up route add [-net|-host] <net|host>/<mask> gw <ip> dev <interface>
> or
> post-up route add [-net|-host] <net|host>/<mask> gw <ip> dev <interface>
> and
> down route del [-net|-host] <net|host>/<mask> gw <ip> dev <interface>
> or
> post-down route del [-net|-host] <net|host>/<mask> gw <ip> dev <interface>
> to it
> 
> or create a route upstart job or a route init script
> 

Thanks Tom,

That seemed to fix it! I used System->Administration->Network to configure the 
network. That created the routes that are required. I thought I had tried that 
and indeed it took a couple of tries but in the end it worked.

Lesson learned DO NOT change host names arbitrarily!

Cheers,
Jay
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Jay Ridgley
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