Netstat -nr Problem

Christopher K. Johnson ckjohnson at gwi.net
Wed Mar 10 23:58:18 UTC 2004


Chris Miller wrote:

>Hi,
>
>
>I seem to have a problem with the network scripts.  If I have ifcfg-eth0
>, ifcfg-eth0:100 and ifcfg-eth0:243.  When the interfaces are uped if
>you do a netstat -nr I will have 3 default gateways all being the
>gateway in ifcfg-eth0.   Ifcfg-eth0:100 and ifcfg-eth0:243 do not have
>gateways but yet they get added as the one in ifcfg-eth0.  Even if
>ifcfg-eth0 is in a different network.  Is that right?  
>
Yes, it is right.  By default each alias inherits the settings of base 
interface unless overridden.
To prevent this for the gateway setting add the following to the base 
interface configuration ifcfg-eth0:

NO_ALIASROUTING=yes

Chris

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