[ale] Routing not working on startup

[Robert Heaven]

I suggest you deactivate the default route on your internal interface.
The routing software gets very confused when you have multiple default
routes.

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 13:12, Mike Millson wrote:
> I am not able to access the internet after startup or after "service network
> stop" / "service network start".
> 
> netstat -rn looks like this:
> 
> Destination     Gateway     Iface
> ===================================
> 192.168.1.0      0.0.0.0      eth1
> 216.77.224.0     0.0.0.0      eth0
> 127.0.0.0        0.0.0.0      lo
> 0.0.0.0          192.168.1.1  eth1
> 0.0.0.0          216.77.224.1  eth0
> 
> netstat -r looks like this:
> 
> Destination     Gateway     Iface
> ===================================
> 192.168.1.0      0.0.0.0      eth1
> 216.77.224.0     0.0.0.0      eth0
> 127.0.0.0        0.0.0.0      lo
> default          mmillson.bellsouth.net  eth1
> default          216.77.224.1  eth0
> 
> Then I go into control panel and deacticate eth0, then activate it, and I
> can access the Internet.
> 
> netstat -rn looks like this:
> 
> Destination     Gateway     Iface
> ===================================
> 192.168.1.0      0.0.0.0      eth1
> 216.77.224.0     0.0.0.0      eth0
> 127.0.0.0        0.0.0.0      lo
> 0.0.0.0          216.77.224.1  eth0
> 0.0.0.0          192.168.1.1  eth1
> 
> netstat -r looks like this:
> 
> Destination     Gateway     Iface
> ===================================
> 192.168.1.0      0.0.0.0      eth1
> 216.77.224.0     0.0.0.0      eth0
> 127.0.0.0        0.0.0.0      lo
> default          adsl-77-224-1.atl.bellsouth.net  eth0
> default          192.168.1.1  eth1
> 
> I can see that after "service network stop" / "service network start" the
> default route is sending traffic to my internal network gateway. After
> control-panel deactivate/activate eth0, the default route is correctly
> sending traffic to bellsouth's gateway.
> 
> What do I need to do to my network settings to have a good routing table on
> startup?
> 
> Thank you,
> Mike
> 
> 
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