[WBEL-users] 2 addresses on a NIC and default route problem

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 08:10 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have two addresses on my NIC.
> 
> The first is the final address for the system, but without a default 
> gateway. I did this to get BIND set right, while running the system on a 
> test subnet. Oh and this is a public address.
> 
> The second address is from my 1918 RFC, and it has a default gateway.
> 
> After reboot, there is no default route.
> 
> I did not know what to do, so I added a 0.0.0.0 route to the second 
> address, pointed to the gateway.
> 
> This worked.
> 
> Then I rebooted, and no default route.
> 
> I deactiviated the second address, then reactivated it and the default 
> route showed up.
> 
> ?????
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I am no expert on these things but when I am setting up multiple
addresses on a system I never put the gatewayaddress on a nic via ifcfg-
ethx

I always set
GATEWAYDEV=ethx
GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

in /etc/sysconfig/network

YMMV

Craig