Hi. On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 01:13:07PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Then give me an install that can be made to work in a hosts file defined > local network that can accept a gateway statement in its e/n/i file. The > default install does NOT accept it until the network has been brought > up.
In another news, you cannot have a default gateway unless it's reachable according to existing routing table. The reason is simple - a default gateway is not 'global', the kernel must decide with interface to attach to a default gateway route. So you bring a network interface up, add an address to it and only then configure a default gateway. And that's not specific to a Linux, it works that way in any OS I've seen so far. Reco
