gateway not set by dhcp

[Trevor "TeC" Christian]

sean wrote:

> sean wrote:
>
>> I'm booting with dhcp. I get assigned the ip address and netmask, but 
>> the default route to the gateway isn't set.
>>
>> I can do it manually, but...
>>
>> FWIW, xp is able to get the gateway info.
>>
>> any suggestions?
>>
>> sean
>>
>
> Also, I've upgraded to dhclient 3.0.3-10
>
> And /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases shows the gatway router:
>
> lease {
>   interface "eth0";
>   fixed-address 192.168.2.3;
>   option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>   option dhcp-lease-time 4294967295;
>   option routers 192.168.2.1;
>   option dhcp-message-type 5;
>   option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.2.1;
>   option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.1;
> .......
>
>
> sean
>
Are there any other interfaces on your system that start on boot?

If yes, you may have to specify that eth0 is to provide the default route.
Adding "DEFROUTE=yes" to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 
should do that...

Hope that helps...

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