On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:28:44AM -0500, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
Ok, but what about the rules, ie. When issueing the following commands I understand how I can use the route-device file, but which file do edit to deal with the "ip rule add" line ?
/sbin/ip rule delete from ${IPADDR} lookup ${TABLE} /sbin/ip rule add from ${IPADDR} table ${TABLE} priority ${PRIORITY}
If you are willing to do some packaging work, you might want to look at /etc/net, which has been developed for the ALTLinux distribution:
/etc/net represents a new approach to Linux network configuration tasks. Inspired by the limitations of traditional configuration subsystems,
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That looks interesting, but I don't have any time for development on this. I need something that "Just Works".
What I have done is written a script in /sbin/ifup-local, which will add the rules I need. I don't like it, but it will get me by. I think that in the long run the /etc/net approach will be a better strategy, but for now I need somehting which is also supported by RedHat-AS