On Sun April 13 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > The route-<interface-name> file contains the data that is used by > the interface activation script to add routes specific to that > interface. Although strikingly accurate, You can think of the file > running the route add command with the information provided in the > file passed to the route command. I have not checked to see if it is > still true, but the file used to accept routes in 2 formats - the > one you show, and form used by the route command. > > You either have to create the file by hand, or use one of the > network setup GUIs to create it. well, this issue was settled in an "interesting" way. trying to mimic what the Debian user had figured out was looking more and more like a poop in a punch bowl my boss figured out a different way to do the same thing, but, you may be surprised he told me to configure my 70.###.###.124 address in the following manner: we gave it a subnet of /24 even though our block of 64 IP's has a subnet of .192; though our address range starts at .64 we told it that its gateway was .1 -- somehow, the Cisco router is smart enough to figure this all out and get our traffic onto the net, don't ask me how --- -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list