On Wednesday 2007-05-16 21:43:12 Frank Cox wrote: > I am setting up a customized application server for a business in the USA and > am at my wits end with Qwest Communications. > ... > > IP Address is what he was assigned by Qwest, good. > Subnet 255.255.255.0, good. > Gateway 192.168.0.1 ---- ?!?!?! > ... > > Can any of you offer any insight? The whole thing is an Alice in Wonderland > thing as far as I can see, and the further I go down this rabbit hole the less > sense it seems to make. I don't see how those settings on his Windows computer > can work, and I don't see how the tracert results that he got can be possible > either. But it does, and it did. > ip link set up dev eth0 ip address add your_real_ip_here peer 192.168.0.1 ip route add default via 192.168.0.1 ip route flush cache and you are done. Have no idea if this can be done with ifcfg-eth0 (not AFAIK). you can however give no IP/MASK in yout ifcfg-eth0 and add these (withot the first one) in /etc/rc.d/rc.local for example. -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev, GPG key ID: 0EF40B9E, Key server: pgp.mit.edu