[lug] Automatically setting route on KRUD/FC3

[Elyse M. Grasso]

On Monday 20 June 2005 09:08 am, Hugh Brown wrote:
> The parameters in those files are used by the various scripts that bring
> up the interface (so if you have the time, trace /etc/init.d/network from
> start to finish).
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network on my RH3 machine has
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=machinename
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
> 
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ONBOOT=yes
> TYPE=Ethernet
> PEERDNS=no
> 
> You might also look at the contents of /etc/sysconfig/networking/ and make
> sure the various files match what you'd expect them to.  I too find that
> the redhat network tool ends up being more trouble than it's worth (unless
> it's all you ever use to configure your network, even then it's iffy).
> 
> Hugh
> 
> 
>  On
> Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Elyse M. Grasso wrote:
> 
> > Could someone using dhcp who doesn't have this problem post their 
ifcfg-etho
> > and /etc/sysconfig/network files?
> >
> > There is a line
> > GATEWAYDEV=	# this is for setting default route
> >
> > in my ifcfg-eth0 that I cannot find mentioned in any google results for 
ifcfg
> > files, and I'm wondering if this may be part of the problem.

Cleaning out the files seems to have fixed things. I strongly suspect that the 
RedHat tools putting that GATEWAYDEV line in the ifcfg file is what broke 
things...

-- 
Elyse Grasso

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