Re: cannot route after adding more interfaces

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:

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 : 	100.100.100.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0 0 eth0:7
 : 	100.100.100.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0 26251 eth0:11
 : 	100.100.100.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0 2233 eth0
 : 	127.0.0.0         *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0 0 lo
 : 	default           our.gate.way.ip 0.0.0.0         UG    1      0 16 eth0:7

Easy way:

Run the route command that adds the default route BEFORE you add the
aliased addresses.

Not as easy (but not hard):

Change the route command that adds the default route to read:

  route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 dev eth0

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