Default route not set on boot up

[Andrew Robinson]

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 22:01 -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>> Charles Crayne wrote:
>>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:49:32 -0500
>>> Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> After installing F10, when I power up my laptop, the default route
>>>> does not get set.
>>> I had this problem as a symptom of the broken network configuration
>>> tool.
>>>
>>>> I have a "GATEWAY=192.168.1.1" statement in both
>>>> the ifcfg-wlan0 file and the /etc/sysconfig/network file.
>>> Check the NETMASK statement in those files.
>>>
>> The NETMASK in the ifcfg-wlan0 file is good. I noticed and fixed that 
>> problem during the installation. There is no NETMASK statement in the 
>> /etc/sysconfig/network file. Any other ideas?
> ----
> netmask should not be in /etc/sysconfig/network
> 
> you can however put GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 there
> 
> Just out of curiousity, are you sure that the gateway address isn't
> registered on startup?
> 
> route -n # doesn't show the default gateway address at startup?
> if so, does running the commands...
> 
> ifdown wlan0
> ifup wlan0
> 
> make the gateway address appear in 'route -n' after running those
> commands?
> 

Interesting. The default route does appear after an ifdown - ifup. I've 
been using 'netstat -nr' to determine its existence. So that begs the 
question of why it is not set at boot time. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Andrew