I am working with a machine with two nic cards. One is connected to the corporate network. This is eth0. The other was previously not connected to anything. Everything worked fine. In setting the machine up for some work I will have to do, I did the following: 1. Plug a cable into the eth1 rj45 and into a small hub. 2. Plug a laptop into that same small hub. 3. Configure the laptop to IP address 192.168.55.55 with the gateway 192.168.55.50 4. Using system-config-network, I brought up eth1 as 192.168.55.50 with the default gateway of 192.168.55.55 (the PC). That is all that is attached to the other network. The problem is that when I reboot, or service network restart, the default route ends up on eth1 (192.168.55.55). I can correct it by hand and everything is OK. I have been googling the newsgroups and poking around in the ifcfg-eth* files and have not seen a way to tell the system that the default route is on eth0. I must be missing something simple, can someone point me in the correct direction? (nnn is to obscure our corporate network info) ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:76:FD:6F:17 inet addr:nnn.nnn.36.86 Bcast:nnn.nnn.37.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:132036 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:133639 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:51419035 (49.0 Mb) TX bytes:96862625 (92.3 Mb) Base address:0xa000 Memory:fb000000-fb020000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:76:FF:3A:51 inet addr:192.168.55.50 Bcast:192.168.55.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:116 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:637 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:10202 (9.9 Kb) TX bytes:62796 (61.3 Kb) Base address:0xb000 Memory:fa000000-fa020000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:42266 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:42266 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4674615 (4.4 Mb) TX bytes:4674615 (4.4 Mb) The following is how the routing looks after service network restart (or reboot). Then the two commands fix the problem. netstat -r -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.55.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 nnn.nnn.36.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 192.168.55.55 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 [lcm-phx-07-n1.phx.lucent.com]: route del -net 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.55.55 dev eth1 [lcm-phx-07-n1.phx.lucent.com]: route add -net 0.0.0.0 gw nnn.nnn.36.1 dev eth0 [lcm-phx-07-n1.phx.lucent.com]: netstat -r -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.55.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 nnn.nnn.36.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 nnn.nnn.36.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Robert E. Styma Principal Engineer (DMTS) Lucent Technologies, Phoenix Email: stymar@xxxxxxxxxx / styma@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: 623-582-7323 Cell: 602-478-0114 Company: http://www.lucent.com Personal: http://www.styma.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list