Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[bb@xxxxxxxx (Bodo Bauer)]

[...]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems you are right, there is no way to setup the
> > default gateway once the system is installed, you
> > have to edit /etc/route.conf to do this. Perhaps we
> > should work on this.... :)
> >
> > It should look like this:
> >
> > # /etc/route.conf
> > # local IP                   netmask              interface
> > 192.168.0.0    0.0.0.0      255.255.255.0           eth0
> >
> > #              default gw
> > default        192.168.0.1
> >
> > Then run
> >
> >         /sbin/init.d/route stop ; /sbin/init.d/route start
> >
> > and everything should be fine...
> >
[...]
> How about an interface to "/etc/defaultrouter" al la Sun?
> Easy to use, quick, hard to beat!
> 

Not a bad idea, but I don't think we really need it. route.conf
is easy to handle to (once you get used to it...), and it holds
all the routing info in one file. I don't like the idea to split
up everything in several files...

Ciao,
        BB


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