SUMMARY: Changing default gateway under Solaris 2.3

From: Marco Pineda (mcp4@columbia.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 09 1994 - 01:51:49 CDT


This was easy. Edit the file /etc/defaultrouter to contain the name or
IP address of the gateway. This will set it from boot time on. To reset
immediately use the 'route' command.

# route delete net default <oldgateway>
# route add net default <newgateway>

Please check the 'route' man page for specifics.

Someone mentioned that it might be a good idea to do 'route -f' to flush
the routing table before deleting the old default gateway entry and adding
a new one.

I have succeeded in getting connectivity by applying the second solution
(using route). I have also edited the /etc/defaultrouter file to
contain the correct gateway but have yet to reboot the machine so I
cannot say or certain yet if that will work.

Many thanks to the following:

Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de (Eckhard Rueggeberg)
lmj@fantome.sis.pasteur.fr (Lou Jones)
Markus Storm <storm@uni-paderborn.de>
mauro@rio.esm.vt.edu (Mauro Jorge Atalla)
grevemes@VTC.TACOM.Army.Mil (Steven Grevemeyer)
Ted Nolan SRI Ft Gordon <ted@ags.ga.erg.sri.com>
john@oncology.uthscsa.edu (John Justin Hough)
kumeda@netcom.com (ANDY KUMEDA)
Francis Hsu <francis@red-branch.MIT.EDU>
mgd@bailey.com (Michael G. DeLooze)

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