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Old 06-05-2008, 12:45 PM   #1
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"ip route add" doesn't keep changes on network restart


I have 2 adapters, one on a private ip, and one on a public ip. Every time my machine reboots or I restart the network adapters, the default route goes back to my private network. I have to manually set it to use the adapter on the public network with

ip route add default via [gateway ip] dev eth0

as soon as i restart anything, it is gone again. How can i make these changes permanent? I put the above line in rc.local to fix it for now but that seems like a silly way to do it, it also makes ntpdate wait forever to time out on startup. Am i missing a step to make it save the changes?

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Old 06-05-2008, 01:19 PM   #2
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you've not said what distro you are using, but you'd want to formally set a default gateway in /etc/sysconfig/networks in fedora / redhat etc... that's if you have completely static IP addressing. DHCP should take care of this normally.
 
Old 06-09-2008, 03:54 PM   #3
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Oh, yes i am using redhat.

do i just add a line like
GATEWAY=IP
or is there someplace where i can get a list of variables i can set in the network file?
 
Old 06-10-2008, 03:27 AM   #4
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That'd be the right format AFAIR. but that would normally be automatically entered by using a gui tool e.g. system-config-network. personally i'd just go direct to the file though...
 
Old 06-11-2008, 12:52 AM   #5
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Thanks, that seems to have fixed the issue.
 
  


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