Firewall & Routing - help!

[Kevin F. Berrien]

Jeff Vian & others wrote:

 > IIRC, the /etc/sysconfig/network file is used at boot, but not used 
when doing a network restart, so that may be why the
 > change in 'boot' vs 'network restart' routing.

Well, my network file has nothing regarding the gateway, except for 
GATEWAYDEV=eth0, as recommended here.  I removed that line, rebooted, 
and still could get to the internet.  The only constant factor in 
getting to the internet is the default route I see when I boot or route 
add -net default gw 192.168.50.1 dev eth0  (not network restart).

 > NOZEROCONF=yes in /etc/syconfig/network will remove the route for
 > 169.254.0.0.

Tried it, didn't work.  Now that its been explained what the 169.254.0.0 
route is, I'm not really concerned.

All in all, its not a show stopper, but a). I'd like to be able to 
restart the network and have things working correctly, b). its just not 
right, and I can't leave it alone! <grin>.  Plus I'm learning from all 
this... thanks again to everyone for help and suggestions.  Here are my 
various scripts, etc...

/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=choke
GATEWAYDEV=eth0
NOZEROCONFIG=yes

# 3Com Corporation|3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=192.168.50.255
HWADDR=:XX:XX:XX:XX
IPADDR=192.168.50.48
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.50.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
GATEWAY=192.168.50.1

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
# DEC|DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3]
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=192.168.5.255
HWADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX
IPADDR=192.168.5.200
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.5.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
GATEWAY=

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/routes-eth1 (i didn't create this)
GATEWAY0=192.168.50.48
NETMASK0=255.255.255.0
ADDRESS0=192.168.50.0