Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:57:01 +0000 (GMT) | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: Routing table problems |
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Rajasekhar Inguva wrote:
> 4) ifconfig eth0 up > > After the the 4'th command, my interface is up and has it's IP address set > correctly. But ..... > > netstat -nr does not show my default gateway for network 0.0.0.0 !!.
ifconfig just brings the interface up, it does not set the routes. It is not a kernel problem.
Usually, an interface is brought up by the /sbin/ifup (or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup) script which calls ifconfig and then adds the default route by calling /sbin/route.
-- Catalin
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