On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:21 -0500, Douglas Frank wrote: > Oops yes it is. Anyway I'm past that (see earlier post)-- the box I > *thought* was the router, isn't. > > I'm almost all set-- I just need to know how to make the routing table > permanent. Looking at /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network, it reads a static- > routes file (if present) and adds routes found there. Looks like all > I have to do is gin up a file for it to read. Unfortunately the rc > script dosn't allow the arguments I think I need: > > the rc script invokes route sort of like this: > > cat static_routes | while read ignore args ; do > /sbin/route add -$args > done Rumour has it that the static-routes file is deprecated (at least that's what it says at http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-hn/appendix- diff.htm and http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-hn/dchp.htm and also mentioned at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi? id=108696). > The lines I *want* to generate to route are: > > route add -net <router's_network> netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 > route add default gw <router_1> > route add default gw <router_2> > > but the darn '-' in the script gets in the way of the 2nd & 3rd lines, > route(8) doesn't like "-default". (The local network router doesn't > have an address on the local net. Beats me! The switches around here > are a madhouse.) > > What's the trick? (Yes I could edit the rc script but would rather not). Hmm, multiple default routes, that's unusual. Are you sure that's what you really want and not: default route via router0 route to otherlan1/prefix1 via router1 route to otherlan2/prefix2 via router2 You'd set this up as follows: 1. Add a line: GATEWAY=router0-IP to /etc/sysconfig/network 2. Add lines: otherlan1/prefix1 via router1-IP otherlan2/prefix2 via router2-IP e.g. 16.47.32.0/24 via 16.140.160.1 16.32.176.0/24 via 16.140.160.2 to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 If you really do need multiple default routes, a non-Fedora-specific guide to handling routing for multiple uplinks/providers can be found at: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
