On Wednesday 10 December 2003 05:53 pm, Steve Wechsler wrote:
> Just installed Mandrake 9.0.

Why not 9.2 ?

> When I went through the install procedure I 
> told it to use a static IP, and it then asked me for my default gateway.
> After the setup was completed, the default gateway didn't seem to be
> working properly - I couldn't ping anything outside my LAN. So I did a
> route add default gw gateway_ip, and that seemed to work, which means that
> it can now access DNS. However, ping and traceroute (other services like
> FTP work) don't seem to get returned to my machine. My windows machine on
> the same network has no such problems. Also, I wonder if the default
> gateway will be maintained once my machine is rebooted. Please help.

You want to add your gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network
You want to have an entry like:

GATEWAY=1.2.3.4

Sunny Dubey


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