On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:15, Jake Colman wrote: > I have to add the IP adress of my external NIC as a default gw. > > MD> Please post the results of "netstat -rn" after a fresh reboot. > > The output of 'netstat -rn' following a reboot is: > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface > 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > 68.196.176.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.240.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 > > After I manually add a default route through eth0, I get the following: > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface > 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > 68.196.176.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.240.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > 0.0.0.0 68.196.186.208 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 You have 192.168.0.254 configured as your gateway ( in /etc/sysconfig/network). Remove that entry, and let dhcp set it for you. dhcp won't set your default gateway if it's already set. Bas Vermeulen -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list