Multiple Route entries on HP-Ux 11.00

[Naveen Shetty]

Hi All ,

If I can get few suggestions on the below topic :

I have 20 No.Of HP 9000 Servers with HP-Ux 11.0 with 64Bit Working on it in one Site.I have somewhere arround 8-10 enteries for " ROUTE ADD " in /sbin/rc .

Since the enteries are likely to increase in nos , it would be a time consuming job to do it all the servers .

I would have liked it do be done in such a way like , if I can use one server & update all the route entries in that server , is there any way other servers can take the reference of route entreis from that single server .

I am told fundas on IP_FORWARDING should help me in overcoming this .

Can anyone suggest me a solution for this .


Thanks in Advance .....

[John Waller]

Don't take this as gospel as it is only a theory and I can not fully test it myself, but I believe if you add all your routing enteries on one server then on all other servers just have 1 routing entry for a default router giving the address of the server with all the idividual enteries added. This will only work if all 20 servers are part of the same network and subnet.

[Naveen Shetty]

Thank You for your quick reply .

I will try it out .

Kindly let me know more solutions also on this .


Thanks again for your reply...

[Shannon Petry]

Another idea is to make a file which can be appended to /etc/rc.config.d/netconf containing your routing information. If all of your systems are HP keep a separate ASCII text file containing your routes. I.E.
> cat hp-routers.txt
ROUTE_DESTINATION[1]="default"
ROUTE_MASK[1]=""
ROUTE_GATEWAY="1.2.3.4"
ROUTE_COUNT[1]=1
ROUTE_ARGS=""

ROUTE_DESTINATION[2]="net 198.208.148.0"
ROUTE_MASK[2]="255.255.255.0"
ROUTE_GATEWAY[2]=8.95.100.119
ROUTE_COUNT[2]=1
ROUTE_ARGS[2]=""

ROUTE_DESTINATION[3]="net 134.46.82.0"
ROUTE_MASK[3]="255.255.255.0"
ROUTE_GATEWAY[3]=8.95.100.119
ROUTE_COUNT[3]=1
ROUTE_ARGS[3]=""

Once this is built at each HP system simply
> cat router-nfo.txt >> /etc/rc.config.d/netconf.
NOTE: Make sure that the bracketed number does not overlap on any seat, and should start with"0".

This alleviates the dependancy on 1 server for all routing for each server!


Regards,
Shannon