So I tried moving the GATEWAY clause into etc/sysconfig/network and out of the individual ifcfg-eth? files. It works. So I guess that's the preferred solution, because it puts the information in a single place. There's no need to make sure two or more places are synchronized if anything changes. Thanks to all! Rick On Jun 22, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Thanks! to all who replied. > > I solved it by putting identical "GATEWAY=" clauses in each of > > /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 > /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1 > > This works without error, even though the gateway IP address in > question is not accessible from eth1. > > I haven't tried taking the GATEWAY clause(s) out of the ifcfg files > and moving it to the /etc/sysconfig/network file alone. Does > anybody know if that's the preferred configuration option? > > Thanks! > > Rick > >> El lun, 21-06-2010 a las 19:57 -0400, Rick Thomas escribió: >>> I have a machine with two net interfaces. >>> >>> it seems to always pick the wrong one (eth1) as the default route. >>> >>> I can change it with >>> >>> route del default >>> route add default eth0 >>> >>> after it's up (or in rc.local, of course), but I'd like to figure >>> out >>> what I need to do this "the CentOS way" (e.g. edit some >>> configuration >>> file? Run some config utility, what?) once and for all. >>> >>> Can somebody point me to the canonical documentation on the subject? >>> I've searched /usr/share/doc and the man pages, but I can't find >>> anything useful. >>> >>> Googling for "default route centos" gives some interesting stuff, >>> but >>> nothing definitive. > > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos