Re: Routing table problems

[Dipak <dipak@monmouth.com>]

Hi,
    Add the following line in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network script at the end
of "start" case:
    /sbin/route add default gw <whatever is your default getway ip address>

    OR
    You can modify the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* to add a
line as
    GW=<whatever is your default getway ip address>
    and modify the /etc/rc.d/init.d/network script if statement at the end of
"start" case. For example, here are few lines of what I've done in my script:

        # Add non interface-specific static-routes.
        if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/static-routes ]; then
           grep "^any" /etc/sysconfig/static-routes | while read ignore type
dest netmask mask gw gateway; do
              [ "${gateway}" != "${gateway##[0-9}" ] && \
                /sbin/route add -$type $dest $netmask $mask $gw $gateway
           done
        fi

        touch /var/lock/subsys/network
        ;;

best of luck!
dipak

Rajasekhar Inguva wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am facing a problem ( ???, maybe it works that way, but i really dont
> know ) with regards to routing table behavior when using ifconfig on a
> network interface.
>
> 1) netstat -nr      Shows my default gateway for network 0.0.0.0
>
> 2) ifconfig eth0 down
>
> 3) netstat -nr      No entry for the default gateway is shown (
> understandable )
>
> 4) ifconfig eth0 up
>
> After the the 4'th command, my interface is up and has it's IP address set
> correctly. But .....
>
> netstat -nr  does not show my default gateway for network 0.0.0.0 !!.
> Pinging any IP outside of my subnet, results in "Network is unreachable"
> error.
>
> Is is meant to be that way ? or is there a problem here ?
>
> I've tried it on kernel versions, 2.4.0, 2.4.5 & 2.4.15
>
> FYI : This has been tried using both DHCP and Static IP.
>
> Thanks in advance !
>
> Regards,
>
> Raj
>
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