Hello all,

I am currently setting up an Internet gateway with the help of a linux machine. I am using the route command to set up the default gateway, giving the addres of the router which connects me to the external world.

The problem now is that, everytime I reboot the linux machine, I have to add the default route, even though the corresponding ethernet interfaces are getting activated automatically.

I use the command "route add default gw 'ipaddress of the router' " command, but I have to do this everytime I reboot.

What could be the possible problem ?are there any files that I need to change ?when I went to the man page of route, it indicated me that changes would be made to the file /proc/net/route, but then automatic gateway setting is not being done here.

Help me out please. Thanks in Advance.

Regards

You did not mention the distribution you are running.
On gentoo, for instance, you add extra information like this in /etc/conf.d/net
There should be a similar file in your distro

Another posibiliity would be to add the line to script in /etc/init.d which brings up the network at boot.
Normaly this would be /etc/init.d/network or /etc/init.d/net.eth0 or something like that.

Hey,

Really sorry for that .....I miss this every time I post a query ...I am using RHL9

Thanks.