Re: RH net configuration GUI tool buggy?

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

Right as always Jonathan!

I was just guessing that the meaning and needed value of gatewaydev.

For future reference where could I find a list of the options that go in the 
network config file and what the allowed values are?

Jc

>From: Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>
>Reply-To: tlug@example.com
>To: tlug@example.com
>Subject: Re: RH net configuration GUI tool buggy?
>Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:21:54 +0900
>
>Jean-Christian Imbeault (jean_christian@example.com) wrote:
>
> > [root@example.com /root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> > NETWORKING=yes
> > HOSTNAME=dev
> > GATEWAYDEV=10.2.100.91
> > GATEWAY=10.2.100.91
>
>There's a problem here.  Your GATEWAYDEV should be set to
>the name of your gateway device.  I'm going to assume here
>that your gateway devices is your first/only ethernet
>card.  You can even omit this parameter entirely if you
>have only one network card in your machine.  Set it
>to:
>
>GATEWAYDEV="eth0"
>
>If 10.2.100.91 is your machine's IP address, this is
>doubly borked.  The gateway is not your machine,the
>gateway is the next hop.  My workstation is 203.216.0.50, and
>my gateway is 203.216.0.1.  This is my /etc/sysconfig/network:
>
>NETWORKING=yes
>HOSTNAME=yamame.gol.ad.jp
>GATEWAY=203.216.0.1
>
>This is my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
>
>DEVICE=eth0
>BOOTPROTO=static
>BROADCAST=203.216.0.127
>IPADDR=203.216.0.50
>NETMASK=255.255.255.128
>NETWORK=203.216.0.0
>ONBOOT=yes
>
>
>HTH,
>
>Jonathan
>
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