routing table

upr8830 · 06-03-2003, 03:50 PM

i am running redhat 8.0 on my machine. I was having problems connecting to my ISP and found out that by adding a default route to my routing table sovled the problem.

:/sbin/route add default gw router

however, this default route is deleted everything i restart the network services.

Is there a way where i can add this route to a network script so that it is added to the routing table everytime i start the network service.

Thank you.

upr8830

david_ross · 06-03-2003, 04:14 PM

Try adding "GATEWAY=router" to both:
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

upr8830 · 06-03-2003, 04:35 PM

Added "Gateway=router" to both the files and restarted the network services but the default route was still missing from the routing table.

Thank you.

upr8830

Blindsight · 06-03-2003, 04:46 PM

Alright, here's the deal straight forward without redhat's crazy scripting.

'Add /sbin/route add default gw router' directly to your network script in your start function, just after it assigns an IP address to your interface.

upr8830 · 06-04-2003, 02:01 PM

Could it also be because I don't have any static routing table?

- upr8830

Blindsight · 06-04-2003, 03:28 PM

Not sure what you mean. Do you mean your default gateway isn't static?

moses · 06-18-2003, 03:04 AM

You are trying to set a static routing table with the
/sbin/route add default gw $router_IP_number
command. Add this to your network startup script, as Blindsight suggested.
Also see,
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=66309