Oops sorry Striker, this list has been quiet for so long I forgot my manners. Anyway my answer was: "Hi Jake and welcome to the list. You only need one default gateway. I don't know why some distros do it like this and seem to encourage you to enter a gateway for each interface; my suggestion is to leave the GATEWAY entry blank for all entries except the actual one. Yuri" Striker wrote: > Quoting Jake Ravenwood : Jake Ravenwood once said: > >> thanks for the answers. can you confirm that the should be default >> route eth1 was overwritten by eth5 gateway? > > Would those who have answered Jake, PLEASE respond to the list also, > for the benefit of all list members? > > Thanks > >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Yuri Csapo Academic Computing & Networking Colorado School of Mines CT-256 Phone: (303) 273-3503 Fax: (303) 273-3475 Email: ycsapo@mines.edu Please use the following link to open a service request: http://helpdesk.mines.edu =========================================== With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --Peter J. Schoenster