On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Michael Lake wrote:
> > I find it hard to believe the RH box didn't have a default route set -
> > well, I find it hard to believe it didn't have one set and still worked,
> > anyway!
> I suspect it just added one automatically for me when I installed it 2
> years ago based on my machines ip address. Bless their souls :-)
That surprises me. Older versions of deadrat weren't very "user friendly"
when it came to networking. You generally had to know and understand how
tcpip worked to get them to work properly.
> > route add default <gateway>
>
> > You'll need to add it into the startup scripts
> > if you want it to take on reboot. Don't know how to do that with Debian
>
> I looked up www.debian.org and they have a Network Admin Manual:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/ch-tcpip.html#s3.4
[...snipt...]
> But in my init.d directory the file is called "networks" and it does
> nothing like the above. It sets up anti spoofing, ip_chains, ipfw etc
> and the route command or even ifconfig is not in this directory.
I suspect that the page on debian.org is somewhat out of date. The
"networks" file is more deadrat like, from memory. Perhaps they've
modified the init script processing and not updated the web page - I
dunno, I haven't managed to install debian yet {soon, if I can get the ISO
creation to work properly}.
DaZZa
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