NM and static-routes

khidzir khidzir at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 16:57:18 UTC 2006


Hi Matt,

I've tried your advice but I still needs to manually restart the network 
service after rebooted my laptop for the route to be loaded. Somehow NM 
still "override" the statics routes ...hmmmm. Anyway, thanks for your help.

--khidzir

Matt Roth wrote:
> >> khidzir wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Greetings. After installing Network Manager, my static routes don't 
> work
> >> anymore. I'm using /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 to define
> >> those routes. Currently. I have to add it manually every time I 
> rebooted
> >> my laptop. Is there anythings that I missed out here?
> >>
> >
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >
> > Other than the file that determines static routes
> > is: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes (at least in FC5) I 
> don't
> > know what to say.
>
> Here is what works on my FC3 machines.  Your mileage may vary with FC5.
>
> - Add the static route to "/etc/sysconfig/static-routes"
>
> The syntax is a little funky, so here is one of my entries:
>
> any: net 172.16.0.0 gw 192.168.51.3 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev eth2
>
> If you take a look at "man route" and "/etc/init.d/network", it'll 
> help you understand the syntax.  Basically, the init script is just 
> grepping through the static-routes file for any line that begins with 
> the word "any".  Then it chops off the word "any" (as well as the 
> colon following it), prepends the word "add", and passes the modified 
> line as arguments to the route command.
>
> I hope that was helpful,
>
> Matthew Roth
> InterMedia Marketing Solutions
> Software Engineer and Systems Developer
>




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