For a while now I have had an issue with a lack of a default route to the internet after a reboot. This happened after I applied 7.404 and 7.500 at the same time (both were ready to install and I pressed the "Update to latest version now" button). I was hoping that 7.501 would fix this but it hasn't.
As I know my way round Linux, I was able to add the default route manually to keep things working. Anyway this is now a pain so I am wondering if anybody knows how to fix this.
I have eth1 configured as "Cable Modem (DHCP)" and Default Gateway. It gets its IP address ok but the default route is not added.
While hunting around to try to find out how the default route gets set, I found the following in /tmp/mdwdebug.log:
CALLING SYSTEM: /sbin/ip -o route show proto kernel
CALLING SYSTEM: /sbin/ip -o route show table 253 match 0.0.0.0
INSTALLING DEFAULT ROUTE: a.b.c.d dev eth1
CALLING SYSTEM: /sbin/ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 proto kernel via a.b.c.d dev eth1 onlink table 253
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
where a.b.c.d is my external ip address
The invalid argument appears to be 'onlink', but I do not think that there is anyway for me to fix this by changing a configuration file. The version of ip that I have is iproute2-ss060110.
Does anybody else have this issue or know how to fix it?
Thanks, Gavin.
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