Static Routes via DHCP - How to do?
Roger Grosswiler
roger at gwch.net
Wed Jan 26 16:10:38 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
> Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>
>> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>
>>> You'd probably want this then:
>>>
>>> option static-route 192.168.1.0 10.0.0.3,
>>> 192.168.2.0 10.0.0.3,
>>> 192.168.3.0 10.0.0.3;
>>>
>>> However, it probably won't work; if you look at
>>> http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=dhcp-options it says:
>>>
>>> Also, please note that this option is not intended for classless IP
>>> routing - it does not include a subnet mask. Since classless IP
>>> routing is now the most widely deployed routing standard, this option
>>> is virtually useless, and is not implemented by any of the popular
>>> DHCP clients, for example the Microsoft DHCP client.
>>
>>
>> thats exactly what i tried before, but it even did not work on fedora
>> core. This will mean, i have to make some kind of hack the get the
>> routing fixed in the routing table. I'm gonna write a very little
>> shell-script and let it execute on boot-up. I think, on windoze i can
>> indicate them also as fixed route per client. :-( It would have been
>> luxury...
>
>
> You don't need to script this on linux. Assuming you've only got one NIC
> on your clients (eth0), create a file on each client called
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 that contains the following:
>
> 192.168.1.0/24 via 10.0.0.3
> 192.168.2.0/24 via 10.0.0.3
> 192.168.3.0/24 via 10.0.0.3
>
> That should have the desired effect.
>
> Paul.
>
cool, gonna give this a try :-)
Roger
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