Hi all

I think the bit where I'm getting confused is the default gateway. I understand it's a catch-all for requests that can't be resolved on the two network interfaces. However, the default gateway is connected to eth0 as specified in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Shows you how little I understand of networking on a linux system.

Thanks all for answering my question. I shall steer clear of static routes :-)