> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Dominik Zyla > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 13:55 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to specify the default route? > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:57:13PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I have a machine with two net interfaces. > > > > it seems to always pick the wrong one (eth1) as the default route. > > > > I can change it with > > > > route del default > > route add default eth0 > > > > after it's up (or in rc.local, of course), but I'd like to > figure out > > what I need to do this "the CentOS way" (e.g. edit some > configuration > > file? Run some config utility, what?) once and for all. > > > > Can somebody point me to the canonical documentation on the > subject? > > I've searched /usr/share/doc and the man pages, but I can't find > > anything useful. > > > > Googling for "default route centos" gives some interesting > stuff, but > > nothing definitive. > > route add default gw ${GATEWAYS_IP} Our 2 nics are a wan(static) and lan(dhcp) We set the default route for the wan, and when the dhcp lease expires and renews it klobbers the default route with the lan's gateway. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.