providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. -Chad- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:10:23PM -0400, Chad M Stewart wrote: Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. Unless you're doing something truly outrageous, there should be no reason to need to define anything

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:10, Chad M Stewart wrote: Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread David Z Maze
Chad M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. You probably want a 'gateway' line in /etc/network/interfaces on exactly one interface that's up. -- David Maze

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Chad M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030921 18:10]: Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. In the file /etc/network/interfaces with a gateway-line. Yours sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
I should have thought to do 'man interfaces' before today. :) I'm not used to doing 'man name of file', rather 'man command'. Suggestion -- the default interfaces file should have something like what is shown below already there, only commented out and something telling people to 'man