cannot set the default route in a rh9 box

I am setting up a firewall with Shorewall, and routing with static
routes, and when I set the default route, it doesn't save. my box has
three nics Eth0,1,2 I want the default route to point to 0 but it keeps
pointing back to 2.

On 5 Nov 2005 07:22:00 -0800, Monroe_Buffalo wrote:
> I am setting up a firewall with Shorewall, and routing with static
> routes, and when I set the default route, it doesn't save. my box has
> three nics Eth0,1,2 I want the default route to point to 0 but it keeps
> pointing back to 2.

Have not done rh in awhile. /etc/sysconfig/network used to have the
default gateway device.

cat /etc/sysconfig/network
HOSTNAME=wb.home.invalid
NETWORKING=yes
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
GATEWAYDEV=eth0 <============
GATEWAY=192.168.2.1

What you might do is
cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
grep GATEWAYDEV eth*
to if directive has moved into a nic config file.

Do post a followup as to where it was set.
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this didn't work for me, but I fixed it by adding a script to rc.local
that deletes the default route and adds the one that I want.