OK, I think i have derived the answer from the earlier response. Please tell me if i have this wrong. Looking at my RHEL WS 3 box at home, the network file has only two lines which describe the hostname and the whether or not to use networking. This box uses DHCP which is why i have no gateway listed in that file. The server at work was statically addressed during the setup. At which time i would have set for eth0 the gateway among other things. But for some reason the GATEWAY entry was not added to /etc/sysconfig/network and that is why rebooting it results in no default gateway. So if i add GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 then it should be "all good"? Can anyone tell me why during the setup the GATEWAY varable isn't added to /etc/sysconfig/network when you setup your NIC? Thanks again! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anton Yurchenko" <phila at cascopoint.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 8:06 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] RHEL AS 2.1 default route > Mike Partyka wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Can someone tell me where the default route information on Redhat > > Enterprise Linux is stored? We have about a dozen of these servers at > > work and it seems that whenever one is rebooted we cannot get a hold > > of it again remotely, when i check netstat -rn it seems as though is > > has no default route. when i do "route add default gw 192.168.1.1" and > > restart the NIC is works again. > > /etc/sysconfig/network > > variable is called GATEWAY > set it to you liking > > > > > Thanks, > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list