Set your Default Gateway using Route

Sep 27, 2009Dipin KrishnaDefault, gateway, route

Want to quickly set the route for your machine from the terminal. Start by opening up a terminal window, and type the following, just make sure you have the ip address of your gateway to do so. route add default gw IP ADDRESS eth0 We can see our changes by typing: route -n ————————————————————————— The

Set the default root password

Nov 12, 2008Dipin KrishnaDefault, password, root, set

Setting the default root password: Some Live Linux distributions are created without a root password by default (the root account is inactive). This is particularly true with Debian based distributions like Ubuntu. Setting a root password enables us to access some essential tools such as the synaptic installer. In most cases, having no root password