Hi all, I am a newbie into the Linux world, and I recently built a firewall box (2 NICs, internal network as 192.168.1.xxx) with RedHat 9. Everything works fine, except the routing table. Every time when the system has reboot, I have to do the following command: prompt>route del default prompt>route add default gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [external gateway IP] Because I don't do that, and if I just type "route" at the prompt, the default is point back to the internal NIC. Is there a way to make this permanent? I tried to edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network by adding the line "GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" but it doesn't work. Thanks! Sunny Shum