Add route - problem

[Kenn Chen]

I would like to add new IP into my routing table. When i issue the routing command as below, system response that Network not reach and routing was not created. Any idea of this problem ?

route add net 147.174.213.65 netmask 255.255.255.255

[Donald Kok · Accepted solution]

Hi,
two errors:
147.174.213.65 is not a network, but a host.
255.255.255.255 is not a good netmask.

If you f.i. want to add the 147.174.213 network, you give the command:
route add net 147.174.213.0 netmask 255.255.255.0

Good luck
Donald

[harry d brown jr]

and that is only a temp change. see /etc/rc.config.d/netconf for more perm changes

live free or die
harry

[Joaquin Gil de Vergara]

Donald is right

you also can add a name to the network in the /etc/networks file

mynet 147.174.213

then

route add mynet mask 255.255.255.0

you need put the netmask because 147 is a b class net and by default it takes 16 bit network mask lenght.....

gateway must be reachable by icmp... if not it retunrs an error

regards

[Darrell Allen]

In addition to the other errors already mentioned, you will need to append the "hop count" to the end our your route add command. If the gateway address is the local box, use 0. If the gateway address is a remote box (router), use 1.

Darrell

[harry d brown jr]

Kenn,

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[Kenn Chen]

Thanks all. I would like to know how could i manual add in into netconf file (perm) instead of use route add command. i still cannot use route add command it point network not reachable. it is very weird. In my netconf file, i saw below :-

INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan1
ip_address[0]=213.221.254.12
subnet_mask[0]=255.255.255.224
boardcast_address[0]=
interface_state[0]=
dhcp_enable[0]=

INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan1:1
ip_address[0]=109.15.43.11
subnet_mask[0]=255.255.255.0
boardcast_address[0]=
interface_state[0]=
dhcp_enable[0]=

what is lan1:1 means ? it is visual ip configuration ? then if i want to add my route to this file...how will be the format. Thanks.

[Kong Kian Chay]

In /etc/rc.config.d/netconf, to configure routing entries, you should be looking at :

ROUTE_DESTINATION : the destination nework addr e.g 147.174.0.0
ROUTE_MASK : the destination subnet mask e.g 255.255.0.0
ROUTE_GATEWAY : the G/W IP-Addr
ROUTE_COUNT : the no. of Hops (0 or 1)

Note: ROUTE_DESTINATION can also refer to a Host IP-Addr. See the documentation in the netconf file itself.

[Manoj Misra]

Hi,

Just modify this section of the netconf file

ROUTE_DESTINATION[0]=default
ROUTE_MASK[0]=""
ROUTE_GATEWAY[0]=""
ROUTE_COUNT[0]=""
ROUTE_ARGS[0]=""

Add your destination in route destination and rest of the entries.
then restart the net deamon.
It should work.

The second entries in your netconf file is vertual second IP address configuration.

HTH
Manoj