On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 08:55, Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> Ok, I tried on the enigma list with no luck, so I'm going to try here.
> Basic question is: Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong
> that I would get multiple duplicate default routes when I boot up?  I have
> to remove all but one of them by doing "route del -net 0.0.0.0" to get
> things back to normal.
...
> > network:
> >     Defines NETWORKING=yes, HOSTNAME=foo, GATEWAY=1.2.3.4
> > 
> > network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
> >     Defines DEVICE=eth0, BOOTPROTO,BROADCAST, IPADDR, NETMASK, NETWORK,
> > ONBOOT, TYPE, USERCTL, PEERDNS, GATEWAY=...
...
> > network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
> >     Defines DEVICE=eth1, BOOTPROTO, BROADCAST, IPADDR, NETMASK, NETWORK,
> > ONBOOT, TYPE, USERCTL, PEERDNS, GATEWAY
...
> > I've chopped out most of the actual numbers for brevity but I'll
> > summarize: eth0's gateway is the same as the one in
> > /etc/sysconfig/network.  Eth1's gateway is specific for its network.

How about you define the gateway just once?  In this case, gateway
implies *default gateway*, so it doesn't make sense for eth1 to have one
"specific for its network".

If you need static routes set up, you can configure them with the
network configuration tool.

> > It should probably be noted that I'm avoiding using redhat network config
> > tool because when I used it from stock 7.2 it screwed up network settings
> > a lot on another system.

Yes, it had a tendency to do that.  The current version, in errata,
seems to work much better, and probably won't let you make similar
mistakes.

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