Gateway Problems
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri May 26 19:01:32 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 12:49 -0600, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> I'm running FC2 on my file server. Every time it has to be
> booted (power outage) it does not establish it's Gateway. the
> /etc/ssyconfig/network file has a line that says "GATEWAY =
> 192.168.1.1" but I have to type in "route add default gw
> 192.168.1.1 eth0" to get the gateway to open up. It wouldn't be
> so bad but this server runs fetchmail for me so my on-line email
> boxes don't get too full.
Make sure /etc/sysconfig/network has
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
in it with NO SPACES (remember, it's a shell variable definition...no
spaces allowed). Also verify you don't have a "GATEWAY=" line in any
of your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX files.
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