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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