On Friday 17 Apr 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
.... snip ...

> > I plug
> > in the ethernet cable to my laptop - laptop is set to get IP and
> > other info from DHCP, and it works out of the box. In the office
> > LAN, this was working out of the box previously. Now ethernet gets
> > detected, but there is no default route - I have to manually add
> > the default route to the gateway. Any idea why this should happen?
>
> Check  /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 or equivalent to
> check if a default gateway is set there. Otherwise you can edit the
> file and add it.

The OP has set his laptop to get all network parameters via DHCP, 
default gw being one of them.

-- 
Arun Khan


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