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Darryl Hoar wrote:

>>Darryl Hoar wrote:
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>>>Greetings,
>>>I am running FreeBSD 4.7-stable on a computer.  It is 
>>>configured to be my firewall.  My IPS changed the
>>>technology to access my DSL.  How do I define a gateway
>>>for an interface ?
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>Darryl
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>>As root:
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>>$route add default ip.of.new.gw
>>
>>HTH,
>>
>>Kevin Kinsey
>>DaleCo, S.P.
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>
>Yep, route add default ip.of.new.gw works like a champ.  How do I
>make it perminent ?  Just add the
>defaultgateway="ip.of.new.gw"  ?
>
>thanks,
>Darryl
>
>(ah, 1.5Mb is sooo nice)
>  
>

Kent had that one for you; in /etc/rc.conf:

defaultrouter=ip.of.your.gw

KDK