On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 17:38, Sunny Shum wrote: > 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 > look for a "GATEWAY=192.168.1.xxx" entry in one of your: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? files. -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
