the command route......

[sandro ginnari_1]

Hi,
I'm trying to insert a net in my routing table with the route command with the following sintax:
route add [NET IP][GATEWAY IP][SUBNET IP]
after this i type in "route -n" and I don't get any visible output.
I read the man page but it realy didn't (this is quite common:)).
thanks

[Andrew Lartey]

Have you tried netstat -r and netstat -rn

[Neil Moore]

you can echo $? after the command
1=Not done
0=Done

Also try calling route by its whole path just incase an alias it set up for it

[Scott D. Allen]

I encountered this problem today also.

route in HP-UX is only used to add/remove routing table entries dynamically. I don't even believe that it CAN permanently add a routing entry to the routing table.

To answer your question.....use netstat -rn or netstat -r to display the routing information.

--Scott

[Scott D. Allen]

I encountered this problem today also.

route in HP-UX is only used to add/remove routing table entries dynamically. I don't even believe that it CAN permanently add a routing entry to the routing table.

To answer your question.....use netstat -rn or netstat -r to display the routing information.

--Scott

[Emmanuel Eyer · Accepted solution]

To add temporary routes, use route add, and check with netstat -r[n] (since route does not complain upon errors!)

To add permanent static routes, edit /etc/rc.config.d/netconf. You will find comments explaining what to do exactly.

Good hint: NEVER forget to set HOP_COUNT to 1 (or whatever), since the default is 0 (thus making your route NOT to cross a router!)

[Kishor Bagul]

I think in your syntax you don't have [destination IP], also if you want you can specifiy counts at the end after destination IP.