[plug] Setting up a Gateway for a Ethernet Interface

[Jason Nicholls]

G'day,

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 02:22:33PM +0800, Mark A. Sasse wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could lend some assistance with setting up a
> gatway for a network interface.  I have looked at the man route page with no
> avail.
> 
> I am trying to add a network gateway through console for a network interface
> eth0.
> 
> When I do the following:
> 
> route -add net <gateway address> netmask <netmask> eth0
> 
> It adds it but it is not the gateway for the interface I need.

If you're talking about the default route, then the route man page even has an
example:

 route add default gw mango-gw

In your case you'd use the IP of eth0 interface rather than the name
"mango-gw". so:

route add default gw <IPaddr>




Later,

Jason Nicholls
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