afternoon

i need help with something, it involves a ubuntu server and a Wan network.

first off, an exert from my server --

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.253.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
default 192.168.253.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
radius@radius:~$
you see that default network, every time i restart the machine i have to manual add that route or the outside network cannot get hold of the server.

how do i make that permanent.

I have read information about this and it says add gateway into the interfaces conf file but i have it there, hell it was the first this i setup

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.253.8
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.253.0
broadcast 192.168.253.255
gateway 192.168.235.1
please, this is starting to annoy me, if any one can help