Tried to delete them but they still show up after a reboot.

the loopback is a typo in my example. it is pointing to lo not eth0. 
Thanks for noticing.

    -Lou

Jim Cunning wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Lou Hamilton wrote:
>
>>List:
>>
>>I am having an issue with my local routing table on my RH7.3
>>Workstation. I have some extra lines in my routing table that I am
>>having difficulties removing.
>>
>
>[snip]
>
>>My 'ifconfig' is showing that I am getting an IP address from the DHCP
>>and it is valid on my network.
>>
>>'route -n', however, is showing that I have too many routes in my table
>>and seems to be confusing the packets and sending everything to the
>>default gateway. I do not even know where these routes came from. I
>>never entered anything in manually. I only activated the eth0 interface.
>>
>>My results of '/sbin/route -n' are:
>>
>>Destination    Gateway     Genmask    Flags    Metric    Ref    Use
>>Iface
>>0.0.0.0    192.168.1.1    255.255.255.255    UGH    0     0    0    eth0
>>192.168.1.0    192.168.1.1    255.255.255.0    UG    0    0    0    eth0
>>192.168.1.0    0.0.0.0    255.255.255.0    U     0    0    0    eth0
>>127.0.0.0    0.0.0.0    255.0.0.0    U          0    0    0    eth0
>>0.0.0.0    192.168.1.1    0.0.0.0    UG       0    0    0    eth0
>>
>>My new issue is getting rid of the unwanted routes (lines 1 and 2). I
>>have tried the 'route del' command to no avail. If anyone has any ideas
>>on a syntax that will make this work, it would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
>I don't think you need to delete the first route entry, because that only
>routes packets to host 0.0.0.0 to the DHCP router. The one you want to
>delete is #2:
>
>       route del -network 192.168.1.0 gw 192.168.1.1
>
>should work.
>
>As a side note, but perhaps not part of your problem, the route for
>127.0.0.0 is wrong. It should NOT point to "eth0" but the "lo"
>
>Jim
>
>
>






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