On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:58:12AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Thu, May 14, 2015 16:09, Fred Smith wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I'm running C6 (up to date) on x86-64. have been running on the same > > system for over a year. > > > > a couple of times lately access to the outside network has suddenly > > stopped working for reasons that I didn't figure out until it happened > > again yesterday. > > > > I had the time to fool with it, yesterday, so after quite a bit of > > head-banging I found that it had no default route set up (to make this > > story less long...). > > > > On CentOs-6 you can set the default route using > GATEWAY=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd either in /etc/sysconfig/network or > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-X where X is the network > interface that you wish to use for default routing, usually eth0. > Setting the GATEWAY value in the ifcfg-X file puts it in a place that > you are likely to see far more often than /etc/sysconfig/network so > the ifcfg-X file is where I usually place it. actually, GATEWAY is already set in both places. I looked there while the problem was occurring and saw it in both places, and I just looked again and yes, its still there. I am, however, allowing NM to manage the network, and I don't know where it stores its settings. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos