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
>
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