Gentoo Installation Handbook 3. Configuring your Network 3.d. Manual Network Configuration After following this part of the Handbook, Internet did not work/was intermittent/was unreliable/produced unexpected results (pings of 1000ms if pinging happened to work). Reverting back to the old installation manual, I noticed it had `metric 1` on it's `route` line. So I redid this part of the Handbook, adding `metric 1` to the appropriate step, (`route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1`), and it worked. The manual should be revised to include `metric 1`, unless my system is an exception and it requires this or something. If this is the case, perhaps it should be mentioned to try the command with `metric 1` if the Internet still does not work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Follow Handbook up until the end of '3. Configuring your Network', using the manual section at the bottom. 2. Internet does not work. Actual Results: Internet didn't work. Expected Results: Internet should have worked. (adding `metric 1`)
Weird; metric's shouldn't be placed unless you plan on having routing daemons... what network environment are you in?
Uhm.. Sorry guys, I think I messed up on this one. I was probably trying to ping sites that block ICMP requests or something, as it works fine without metric 1 now... Anyways if you care I'm just behind a router.
