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I just installed CentOS 6.2 on a box using ipmi and have tried setting up the network with no luck.

I've got a 66.x.x.56/29 allocation of ip addresses on vlan (66.x.x.56 to 66.x.x.63), so I have set up 5 ips on one of the nics. 66.x.x.57 is the gateway.

My problem is I can ping any of the 5 ip's on eth1 and get a response, but I cannot ping the gateway or any other ip/hostname. Basically, no outside connections..

/etc/resolv.conf:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

/etc/sysconfig/network

NETWORKING=yes
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
HOSTNAME=hostname.mydomain.com
GATEWAY=66.x.x.57

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

DEVICE="eth1"
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=66.x.x.58
NETMASK=255.255.255.248
ONBOOT=yes

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:1

DEVICE="eth1:1"
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=66.x.x.59
NETMASK=255.255.255.248
ONBOOT=yes

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:2

DEVICE="eth1:2"
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=66.x.x.60
NETMASK=255.255.255.248
ONBOOT=yes

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:3

DEVICE="eth1:3"
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=66.x.x.61
NETMASK=255.255.255.248
ONBOOT=yes

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:4

DEVICE="eth1:4"
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=66.x.x.62
NETMASK=255.255.255.248
ONBOOT=yes

route -n

Dest           Gateway       Genmask            Flags   Metric   Ref  Use   Iface
66.x.x.56      0.0.0.0       255.255.255.248    U       0        0    0     eth1
169.254.0.0    0.0.0.0       255.255.0.0        U       1003     0    0     eth1
0.0.0.0        66.x.x.57     0.0.0.0            UG      0        0    0     eth1

Please let me know if I left anything out.I included anything that I thought was necessary! Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Why do you have HWADDR set at all? – grawity Mar 4 '12 at 22:05
What happens when you try to ping the gateway? – David Schwartz Mar 4 '12 at 22:08
@grawity HWADDR was just there whenever I first edited the file, and then I just carried it over to the aliases since it complained about wrong HWADDR whenever I tried removing it. – Henry F. Mar 4 '12 at 22:13
@DavidSchwartz It tries to ping, then it shows "Destination Host Unreachable" – Henry F. Mar 4 '12 at 22:16

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.56 is the subnet address. You can't use it as a host address. When you try to reach the gateway, the source IP address is the subnet address, leaving the gateway baffled as to how to respond. By assigning .56 to the physical interface, you have made it the default source IP address.

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Ah yea, that was dumb. I fixed that and modified my eth1 and alias. I still can't get a response from the gateway with ping. – Henry F. Mar 5 '12 at 7:56
What is the source address of the ping packets now? Did you wait for ARP to expire? – David Schwartz Mar 5 '12 at 8:02
The source address is now the .58 address. arp -na shows incomplete, and arping never gets a response – Henry F. Mar 5 '12 at 8:15

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