Which way -- Gateway

The gateway, I assume, can go into either of these two files.
/etc/sysconfig/network or ...
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Why should it make a difference?
Is the only difference that the gateway should go in
/etc/sysconfig/network ...
unless you have more than one i/f with each i/f having its own gateway.
In which the gateway should be configured in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1???

I may be making some assumptions...
Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

On 31 Mar 2006 12:37:50 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> The gateway, I assume, can go into either of these two files.
> /etc/sysconfig/network or ...
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>
> Why should it make a difference?
> Is the only difference that the gateway should go in
> /etc/sysconfig/network ...
> unless you have more than one i/f with each i/f having its own gateway.
> In which the gateway should be configured in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1???
>
> I may be making some assumptions...
> Can someone point me in the right direction?

I suggest putting the default gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network.
That allows you to delete/change eth0 and still not affect default
routing.

Then again, it depends on what distribution you are using and if
static or dhcp.

Your default gateway is normally where to send packets which will do not
route on your LAN. It is usually the next node on the way to the
internet.

If you want to hardcode some routing I'll suggest puting them in
/etc/sysconfig/static-routes
or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-ethX
depending on your distribution and release/verision.

Hmmm,

Thank you for the reply!

I'm just curious...
So you are suggesting not to put the gateway in ifcfg-eth0?
Why not put a gateway in each ifcfg-ethx file?
Centralized management?

Thanks again!

On 31 Mar 2006 14:04:15 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> I'm just curious...
> So you are suggesting not to put the gateway in ifcfg-eth0?

Yes.

> Why not put a gateway in each ifcfg-ethx file?

Why maintain gateway in more than one place.

> Centralized management?

Yes. Also allows my custom dhclient-exit-hooks script to run faster and
allows my custom network_ck script to load only one file.


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

THANKS!!!