Cool, Thanks for the help. I have been in many mailing groups and this one by far is the most helpful. Thank you! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anton Yurchenko" <phila at cascopoint.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] RHEL AS 2.1 default route > Mike Partyka wrote: > > >OK, I think i have derived the answer from the earlier response. Please tell > >me if i have this wrong. > > > >Looking at my RHEL WS 3 box at home, the network file has only two lines > >which describe the hostname and the whether or not to use networking. This > >box uses DHCP which is why i have no gateway listed in that file. > > > >The server at work was statically addressed during the setup. At which time > >i would have set for eth0 the gateway among other things. But for some > >reason the GATEWAY entry was not added to /etc/sysconfig/network and that is > >why rebooting it results in no default gateway. So if i add > >GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 then it should be "all good"? > > > > > > > yes it shoould be all good, this file is dynamically parsed by a script > called /etc/init.d/network which brings up the whole network thing. you > add this variable to to this file and it should work. > You can even test it while remotely logged in like this: > > /etc/init.d/network restart ; sleep 10; route add default gw 192.168.1.1 > > which means that if it didnt bring up the default route with the script > after 10 secs it`ll add it by hand, even if you get cut off. better of > course is to do it on console :) > > >Can anyone tell me why during the setup the GATEWAY varable isn't added to > >/etc/sysconfig/network when you setup your NIC? > > > > > > > hm hard to tell, maybe you forgot it, or some installation script > screwd it up, really anything is possible. Byt in any case this is a way > to fix it :) > With all the different distros bringing up network in a different way > the easiest way to figure out where everything goes is firing up > midnight commander and doing searches on in files that are in /etc like > search for you IP address or like it`ll give you a starting point and if > you can understand bash scripts you can find out how it is done, there > are some very usefull variables that you can set up in config files for > your network/NICs that are not in them by default but are actually > understood by scripts. > > good luck, and I shure do advise you doing any fiddling with network > parametrs/NICs from the console id this is possible at all > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list