From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215 I have two nics, one public, one private. When GATEWAY is set in /etc/sysconfig/network, default route is listed with 'route -n', but network is unreachable. When I remove the GATEWAY value, restart networking, and manually run 'route add default gw x.x.x.x', I am able to ping both networks successfully. I am running on the 2.4.1 kernel. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set GATEWAY=ISP gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network 2. '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart' 3. ping www.anything.org #ping fails 4. ping 10.1.1.4 #ping any public/private node/interface fails 5. comment GATEWAY=ISP_gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network 6. '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart' 7. 'route add default gw ISP_gateway 8. ping www.anything.org #ping any public/private node/interface succeeds Actual Results: with the failed pings, I get no results at all until I <ctrl>-C, then I get either one or no received packet(s). I don't even get a "network unreachable' message during the ping. Expected Results: ping replys I assume that this is not the fault of routed, however, and assume it has to do with the scripts that have been developed to access /etc/sysconfig/network, however, I have little experience with c or script programming, and do not know what script/process is calling the file. I am not using X at all, and have made no changes through linuxconf, though I have run it to see if there was something that I was missing.
I was able to ping with both values of GATEWAY set as per your example.