Default gateway setup

I've got a machine running White Box Enterprise Linux. Everytime I reboot
the default gateway gets set to the wrong address. The GATEWAY parameter
in /etc/sysconfig/network points to the correct address. Where else could
this be getting set and overridden?

joel moore

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:46:34 +0000, Joel Moore wrote:

> I've got a machine running White Box Enterprise Linux. Everytime I reboot
> the default gateway gets set to the wrong address. The GATEWAY parameter
> in /etc/sysconfig/network points to the correct address. Where else could
> this be getting set and overridden?
>
> joel moore

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX
I think that the /etc/sysconfig/network file usually just has the
device to use... not the IP Address of the gateway. I have multipe
devices so I have
GATEWAYDEV=eth1
in my file...
my ifcfg-eth1 file has
GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

jack


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"Jack Snodgrass" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:GPvVg.919$Ed5.397@trnddc03:

> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:46:34 +0000, Joel Moore wrote:
>
>> I've got a machine running White Box Enterprise Linux. Everytime I
>> reboot the default gateway gets set to the wrong address. The
>> GATEWAY parameter in /etc/sysconfig/network points to the correct
>> address. Where else could this be getting set and overridden?
>>
>> joel moore
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX
> I think that the /etc/sysconfig/network file usually just has the
> device to use... not the IP Address of the gateway. I have multipe
> devices so I have
> GATEWAYDEV=eth1
> in my file...
> my ifcfg-eth1 file has
> GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> jack

Thanks, that was it.

Strange, though. My /etc/sysconfig/network has GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
and no GATEWAYDEV line. Maybe it's a mistake that just gets ignored.