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SubjectRe: Routing table problems
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.

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Catalin


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