Setting up a default gateway

[Weary in West Chester]

Does anyone know what configuration file houses the default gateway address / configuration? I have HP-UX 10.20 /11.0, Compaq Tru64, and Solaris running here, and we just cut our network over to a routed environment last weekend, and I need to set up a gateway now. Is anyone familiar with setting up a gateway on any of these platforms? I'm going to start poking around the man pages, but the HP forum is always the BEST place to start! Any help will be much appreciated. As always, thank you in advance.

[Wilfred Chau_1 · Accepted solution]

For HPUX, you can set it at /etc/rc.config.d/netconf

Assume you configure your nic at [0].

ROUTE_DESTINATION[0]="default"
ROUTE_MASK[0]=""
ROUTE_GATEWAY[0]="gateway IP"
ROUTE_COUNT[0]="1"
ROUTE_ARGS[0]=""

Now at the console,
# route -f

then,

# /sbin/init.d/net start

do a netstat -rn to make sure it is in place.

[Patrick Wallek]

You have the answer for HP-UX.

For Sun Solaris you need to put the IP address of your default gateway into the file /etc/defaultgateway
# cat /etc/defaultgateway
123.123.123.1

[Patrick Wallek]

I'm a bonehead!!!!

I hit submit and realized I told you the wrong file! The correct file is /etc/defaultrouter for Sun Solaris.

# cat /etc/defaultrouter
123.123.123.1

[SHABU KHAN]

Hi,

For SOLARIS...

The file is /etc/defaultrouter where you put your Gateway IP address..

For more information check out the Answerbook on Solaris servers:

http://yourfullyqualifiedhostname:8888

-Shabu

[Darrell Allen]

Hi,

One thing to add about /etc/rc.config.d: be careful of creating backup versions of files in this directory. /etc/rc.config (called by /sbin/rc when changing run level) will skip files with any of the following 4 characters in the filename: .,~#
All others will be executed. Thus netconf.bak will not be executed but netconfOLD will be. And since the shell sorts in ascending, ascii order, netconfOLD will be executed after netconf.

Take a look at /etc/rc.config.

Darrell

[Weary in West Chester]

Patrick, right on for solaris! Thank you.

[Weary in West Chester]

Wilfred,

Your suggestion worked like a champ. Thanks so much.