Re: Help --- Default Gateway will not change

[Tony Nugent <tony linuxworks com au>]

On Tue Oct 29 2002 at 18:34, Keith Mastin wrote:

> >Yes, I understand about linuxconf...however, I have edited the
> >/etc/sysconfig/network file manually and still after rebooting will not
> >change. Furthermore, I checked another Linux box and changed the file
> >manually and everything works fine...the default gateway changes on that
> >box. It just happens to be on this one box which is needed.
> 
> okay, then use the route command.
> 	route del default
> 	route add degault gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> that should do it...

Are you suggesting that this be done manually after every reboot? :)

  (BTW /sbin/route is essentially obselete, /sbin/ip is the new and
  *powerful* networking configuration tool.  Have a google search
  for the linux advanced routing howto and you'll soon see why).

The problem is like to be that the gateway address is specified in
one of the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? files, which
needs to be deleted.

Adding this to /etc/sysconfig/network will probably work (not sure,
it used it)...

GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
GATEWAYDEV=eth0

One way to "fix" it more permanently is to put this into
/etc/sysconfig/static-routes:

eth0 default gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

(or whatever interface the gw is on).

See /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt for all the details.

Cheers
Tony