Gateway problem

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Administrator TOOTAI wrote:

> brad.mugleston at comcast.net a écrit :
>
> > [...]
> >
> > OK, due to rolling blackouts my machine went down again - putting
> >
> > 	"GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" in /etc/sysconfig/network didn't
> > work.  On reboot fetchmail could not find anything outside the
> > home network, neither could ping.  I typed in
> >
> > 	"route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0"
> >
> > and everything stated working again.  I checked
> > /etc/sysconfig/network and the "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" was there.
> >
> Strange. What route do you have before adding manualy the default one? In your
> first post you spoke about ath0 device? Is networking set to yes in network?
>
> This is my network file (FC3):
>
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=hostname.domain
> GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> Also, route add default gw 192.168.1.1 is enough, no need to add the device.
>
My network file is about the same as yours.  Prior to doing this
there was no gateway.

Brad