[TriLUG] configuring Linux with my new router

Matthew Todd matthew.todd at alumni.duke.edu
Wed Sep 10 15:27:08 EDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 15:23, rasch at raschnet.com wrote:
> Looks to me that you're missing a default route.  This can be added
> manually with the command:
> 
> % route add default gw 192.168.1.1
> 
> I don't know the redhat'ism, sorry.


Yup, the redhat'ism is to add the following line to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:

GATEWAY=192.168.1.1


(For inspection purposes, "/sbin/route -n" will show you networks you
can reach.)


Take care,
Matthew




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