Fwd: [Voyage-linux] Host name resolve problem

[Gustin Johnson]

Well the obvious flaw is that the IP address you used does not match
the network and broadcast that you defined (which is network that the
gateway belongs to).  As a result your machine does not "see" the
gateway.

This is not Linux specific but is networking 101.  A good place to
start would be the http://www.tcpipguide.com/ site.  If you plan on
messing with networks, the book he is also selling there is worth
every penny.  The Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control site
(http://www.lartc.org) is also a wealth of info.

You do not need to memorize everything on those two sites, but they
both do a good job of covering the basics.

The short short version is that you either need to change the IP
address or change the rest.  You also do not need the hostapd line
since this machine is acting as a "client" on an existing wifi
network.  You would use hostapd if you were building your own access
point.

The rest of the hosts on your network, do they have 10.0.0.xxx IPs or
192.168.1.xxx IPs?  From Linux you can find the relevant info with "ip
addr" and "ip route".  The "ip addr" will give you an IP and netmask
in CIDR notation (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/nn), while other operating systems
may give you this info as separate IP and netmask entries.  The info I
am after follows "inet", not "inet6".

On Windows "ipconfig /all" should get you the info you need to make
this work.  Specifically you are looking for the netmask and gateway,
I could probably guess/deduce the rest.

Hth,
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:09 AM, KeLLoGsX <mans.xo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gustin,
>
> When I type *# ip route* I get this:
> 10.0.0.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.7
>
> Don't know what this means... My interfaces look like this
>
> *# etc/network/interfaces *
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet static
>  address 10.0.0.7
>  netmask 255.255.255.0
>  network 192.168.1.0
>  broadcast 192.168.1.255
>  gateway 192.168.1.1
>    hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.wlan0.conf
>  wpa-ssid ***
>  wpa-psk ***
>
> Haven't tried the traceroute yet but I will later today.
>
> //KeLLoGsX
>
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