Hi,
Where does rhel linux store its default router ip (as solaris stores in /etc/defaul)? Basically I want to know if a default router is configured or not. Is it enough if I just run route command and check for the gateway IP for default destination... Please help...

I guess that you're looking the network configuration file... On red hat you'll find it there : /etc/sysconfig/network

Thanks for your reply mgai7755.

I just checked out the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network using 'cat /etc/sysconfig/network' and got the below output:
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=vm-rlnx-rds1203.bmc.com

I dont see any entry here for the default router. But when I run the 'route' command i get the below output:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.128.28.0 * 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1002 0 0 eth0
default 10.128.31.253 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Here the Ip for default router is shown as 10.128.31.253

I could not decide whether default router is configured or not as '/etc/sysconfig/network' does not have entry for it but 'route' command's output shows a default router. Please help.

If I'm not wrong, if the GATEWAY entry isn't filled it, you probably do not have a manually specified default gateway.

However, this file also contains information related to a particular NIC : /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or ethX if you've got more than one NIC)

Source : CentOS/REHL documentation

Does it answer your question ?

Since the default gateway listed in your routing table output says eth0 I would suggest you look here:

cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

You can also check the following file:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/static-route

Also, I think if the file:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

has the entry BOOTPROTO=DHCP, then the router (gateway) IP will not be shown as it is taken automatically.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks for all the replies. They were useful...