[KLUG Members] no route to local network?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I'm trying to set up an old 500mhz box as a cable modem gateway running 
> Suse 9.2.  It gets a DHCP address just fine from the cable modem, but 
> doesn't work on the internal LAN.  It seemed to work fine internally 

So you have two NICs?

> until I gave it a static IP, then it completely chokes.  It can ping 
> itself by IP address, but reports "no route to host" when i try to ping 
> anything else, even an adjacent IP.  This occurs even when I disable the 
> outside NIC.  Anybody have a clue what could cause this?  Here's the 
> routing table, which looks fine to me.  What am I missing?
> Destination            gateway               mask            
> flags        interface
> 192.168.41.0      *      255.255.255.0     U   eth0
> link-local        *      255.255.0.0           eth0
> loopback          *      0.0.0.0           U   eth0
> default           *      0.0.0.0           UG  eth0

Where is a reference to eth1?  The first line looks like it might be the
route to the LAN, is the LAN hooked into eth0?  You're certain the your
firewall isn't blocking ICMP?
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