Deleting static routes permanently

[Frank Gentile]

I'd rally appreciate it if anyone could explain how to delete specific static routes permanently ie l don't want them to reappear after a reboot.

Doing a netstat -r shows the routes l need deleted. None of the routes l want to delete are in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf (l'm of the understading that any permanent routes would be listed in the netconf file.

Could you please advise if l'm on the right track and what else l need to check and do to remove these static routes.


regards & thanks in advance

FrankG

[Michael Tully]

Are you sure that the're static routes? Try the /etc/gated.conf file.

[Frank Gentile]

There are no IP addresses entered in the /etc/gated.conf file. Is this where all statics are listed?

[Steven E. Protter]

netstat -rn shows the routes.

This is set in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf

check the ROUTE_GATEWAY
configuration and remove what you don't want.

Its best to boot the box after that, though you can just restart the network.

SEP

[Rajeev Shukla]

If you want to delete a particular route use
route add net netmask 1
If you want to delete everytime after reboot write a script in /sbin/init.d and call in /sbin/rc3.d/

[Michael Tully]

The static routes are listed in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf by default, however some static routes can be listed in /etc/gated.conf if your using 'rip'. Have a look at the samples in /usr/examples/gated/rip.routed

As suggested remove them with the route command.

# route delete

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Also make sure that there are no scripts called when booting that set routes themselves. Check out the scripts in /sbin/rc2.d and /sbin/rc3.d for scripts calling the route command. If the routes keep coming back you could try to replace route with a script echoing the calling command, the commandline and then call the original route to make everything keep on working, but logging to your rc.log file a line for every route command and which script calls it, to make sure where the routes are set.