Re: NetworkManager and special routing

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Phil Meyer <pmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Alan Evans wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Phil Meyer <pmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The file: /etc/sysconfig/static-routes is optional, and does not exist by
>>> default.
>>>
>>> #This line forces multicast out of eth1
>>> # any: net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth1
>>> # for the lab, uncomment the next two lines
>>> # This line forces a route to the local network
>>> # any: net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev eth0
>>> # This line will force a specific network over the primary interface
>>> # any: net NNN.NNN.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev eth0
>>>
>>
>> Still no joy. But I'm still not sure I got it right. All of the
>> examples seem to demonstrate routing a particular network through a
>> particular interface. I only have one interface on this machine; what
>> I wish to do is specify a particular gateway for use for a particular
>> address. I tried:
>>
>> any: net NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN netmask 255.255.255.255 gateway 192.168.0.3
>>
>> as a guess, but nothing changed. Nothing in any log that I could find
>> seemed to indicate whether NetworkManager was even trying to read this
>> file.
>>
>>
>
> Well, for a single host, it would be something like this:
>
> any: host 10.10.10.10 gateway 192.168.1.1
>
> But the question is still whether or not NetworkManager will obey this file.

Still nothing at this point.

> Worst case scenerio we can write a NM dispatcher script to do it:
>
> in: /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/
>
> create a file called static, chmod 755 static, and add: (NOT tested):  I
> ripped the section from /etc/init.d/network.
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> interface=$1
> state=$2
>
> case $state in
>        up)
>       # Add non interface-specific static-routes.
>       if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/static-routes ]; then
>          grep "^any" /etc/sysconfig/static-routes | while read ignore args ;
> do
>             /sbin/route add -$args
>          done
>       fi
>        ;;
>
>       down) ;;

Well, this produces at least an error in /var/log/messages:

Aug 28 08:01:02 localhost nm-dispatcher.action: Script
'/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/static' exited with error status 2.

So that's something, anyway. I don't see any errors in the script, but
I confess that I'm a second-rate bash scripter.

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