Static IP not working

[vern]

I have installed Mandrake 2005LE, Network card is a 3com 905 on eth0.
If I set a static IP on the machine I can ping my gateway/firewall/DHCP server both its inside IP and outside IP, however I cannot get beyond that. Websites are not found.

If I set it to DHCP everything works fine. I have over 100 windoze machines and several Linux boxes running static IP's that connect fine. I need to set a static IP on this station.

I have swapped out NICs, used a variety of static IP's in my range, all with no results.

Any Ideas??

[Flatline]

You need to add a gateway to your network config. I think it would be

route add default gw <IP_address_of_gateway>

[vern]

That works, however the effects are not permanent. On a reboot the static IP fails.
Which file does this write to?
I looked at the eth0 config file under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and compared it to another Mandrake station and they were the same, except for the static number.
If I go into drakconf and set the static IP I am setting the gateway, just as I did on the install however, when I click apply, the gateway disappears.

[Flatline]

I think it uses /proc/net/route to store it, but if I remember correctly, the syntax is a bit rough. For a quick and dirty fix, you could add the route command I gave you earlier to /etc/rc.local and it will run every time you boot.

[vern]

Thank You!

That solved the problem adding the line to the rc.local file.

[unknown]

Can you post that network config file, I'm having troubles as well and I would like to use it as a point of reference. Thanks.

[vern]

Can you post that network config file, I'm having troubles as well and I would like to use it as a point of reference. Thanks.

Not sure if this is what you are after, this is my ifcfg-eth0 file:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=172.16.15.33
NETMASK=255.255.0.0
NETWORK=172.16.0.0
BROADCAST=172.16.255.255
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no