route, default route, eth0 and eth1
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jun 4 12:08:07 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 08:05 +0200, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I draw my configuration of ethernetcards:
>
> PC (eth0 10.0.0.1)-->3com switch-->speedtouch(10.0.0.138)-->theNet
> PC (eth1 192.168.1.10)-->FSG (192.168.1.1)-->speedtouch(10.0.0.138)
>
> Now Fedora default creates the following route:
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> 10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
> 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
> default FSG.lan 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
>
> If it does, I have no internet connection. Then I have to enter the
> following incantation to get internet connection:
>
> route add default gw 10.0.0.138
> route del default gw 192.168.1.1 (this one is optional??)
>
> After which the default route goes over the speedtouch in stead of the
> FSG and I *do* have internet connection.
> However, when I restart Fedora, I have to enter these commands again.
>
> The question is now: how do I get Fedora to remember that I want the
> default route over 10.0.0.138 (or eth0) and not over 192.168.1.1 (or eth1)?
>
> P.S. i read in an old book from 1995 by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman
> (Running Linux) that the metric can be used to have the system choose
> predictably (lower metric is more preferred), but I can seem to find
> this parameter in the fedora GUI tools....
>
> P.S. 2. The FSG is the Freecom Storage Gateway: a network device with
> storage. Regrettably it is not a switch....
>
> Anyone an idea how to get Fedora to set the default route correctly
> (i.e. as I want it)?
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gateway addresses should go into
/etc/sysconfig/network
GATEWAYDEV="eth1" #change as necessary
GATEWAY="10.0.0.138"
remove any gateway entry lines (if they exist) from
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
Craig
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