Making your VMLinux access other machines

I have my RHEL 6 image in which eth1 device is configured. When i tried to ping other lab machines in the network.They are not reachable.For my VM to access other machines in the network,I need to add a new route with default gateway to the eth1 device as follows:

Systems with two NIC cards: Typically two cards are used when connecting to two networks. In this case the device must be defined using one of three methods:

1. Use the Red Hat GUI tool /usr/bin/netcfg OR
   
   
2. Define network parameters in configuration files: Define new device in file (Red Hat/Fedora) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
   (S.u.s.e 9.2: /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-XX:XX:XX:XX:XX)
   

   DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.10.12 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX HOSTNAME=node-name.name-of-domain.com DOMAIN=name-of-domain.com

   Special routing information may be specified, if necessary, in the file
   (Red Hat/Fedora): /etc/sysconfig/static-routes
   (S.u.s.e. 9.2: /etc/sysconfig/network/routes) Example:
   

   eth1 net XXX.XXX.XXX.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
                 

   OR
   
   


3. Define network parameters using Unix command line interface: Define IP address:
   

       ifconfig eth0  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast XXX.XXX.XXX.255
       ifconfig eth1  192.168.10.12   netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.10.255
       

   If necessary, define route with with the route command:
   Examples:
   

     route add default gw XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX dev eth0
     route add  -net  XXX.XXX.XXX.0  netmask 255.255.255.0 gw XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX dev eth0 

   Where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the gateway to the internet as defined by your ISP or network operator. If a mistake is made just repeat the route command substituting "del" in place of "add".