topic Re: Default route entry gets deleted on my linux box on every reboot in Operating System - Linux

Default route entry gets deleted on my linux box on every reboot

Amit Dixit_2 — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 06:15:50 GMT

Hi,
Whenever i reboot my linux server one of
its route entry gets deleted and i have to
type it manually.

#route add default gw 192.168.1.4
Which is the IP address of my server.
How can i make this entry permanenet.

Linux (Redhat 5.2 Apollo).
Thanks,
Amit.

Re: Default route entry gets deleted on my linux box on every reboot

Mark Grant — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 06:30:24 GMT

In red hat it would appear that you need to edit /etc/sysconfig/network to put the gateway in.

However, if you want to do it in a generaic way that will work on every distribution (with the possible exception of the one I'm actually using) you need to put the command command in the rc.local file within the start-up scripts or better still, earlier within the startup scripts, but rc.local will work.

Re: Default route entry gets deleted on my linux box on every reboot

Sergejs Svitnevs — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 06:31:23 GMT

add new string to the /etc/sysconfig/network:
GATEWAY=192.168.1.4

Regards,
Sergejs

Re: Default route entry gets deleted on my linux box on every reboot

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 06:41:17 GMT

to add persitent routes you must create a file
/etc/sysconfig/static-routes

and to add an entry like the following-for adding route to subnet

any net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 192.168.100.1 eth0

use this example as guide

best regards