[wplug] routing question

[Michael Procario]

I am booting it with dhcp and it is either not setting the default route
or I am screwing it up. I have another box with Redhat 7.3 that is also
booting with dhcp. It gets the default route right. I have screwed up
the Mandrak econfiguration somewhere. I may have to kludge it back.  

Does DHCP prevent /etc/sysconfig/network from being called? 

Mike


On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:53:51PM -0400, Steve Snodgrass wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:47:42PM -0400, Michael Procario wrote:
> > Now my question. I seem to have lost my default route out over the
> > router. After I boot and before I run pppd I find these routes. 
> > 
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > Iface
> > 192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
> > eth0
> > 127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
> > lo
> > 
> > The default route is missing. Anyone know where in the network scripts
> > the default route is set. The router is a DHCP server and I use to set
> > my IP addresses, DNS and I think it sets the route too. 
> 
> Mike,
> 
> If you are booting your box as a DHCP client it should pick up the default
> route from the DHCP server (in this case your router).  If you are booting
> static you have to set it yourself.  Red Hat sets it in /etc/sysconfig/network;
> Mandrake may or may not be the same.
> 
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