Siiiiiiiiiigh. Discovered that the file /etc/sysconfig/network contained this line: GATEWAY=<some other IP address> That was first placed there when the machine was first installed, using a static IP address. Commented that out, and now the system gets its gateway via dhcp. j On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 15:39:25 Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > Further investigation. > > If I create a route-eth0 file and put this in it: > > default 192.168.122.1 dev eth0 > > I get this upon network restart: > > Error: either "to" is duplicate, or "192.168.122.1" is a garbage. > > Which this page: > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s1%2dnetworkscripts%2 > dstatic%2droutes.html > > says I will get if the default route is set via DHCP. So, the system is > seeing the default route, and apparently even trying to set it, but it's not > lasting. > > I'm really lost on this one. > > j > > On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 13:48:02 Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > I have a CentOS 6.4 VM that is getting its DHCP information from dnsmasq > > (a > > libvirt instance). However, it is not applying the routing information. > > > > Attached is a tcpdump of the dhcpc output. You'll see: > > Default-Gateway Option 3, length 4: 192.168.122.1 > > > > However, when I run 'route -n', I get: > > > > # route -n > > Kernel IP routing table > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > > Iface 192.168.122.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 > > 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1002 0 > > > > 0 eth0 > > > > Any ideas as to why the default route/gateway information isn't being > > applied? > > > > j -- Joshua J. Kugler - Fairbanks, Alaska Azariah Enterprises - Programming and Website Design joshua@xxxxxxxxxxx - Jabber: pedahzur@xxxxxxxxx PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos