Comments on: HowTo: Add a Persistent Static Route in Redhat Enterprise Linux

By: Jose Tapia

Jose Tapia — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:23:08 +0000

Hi, thanks a lot for your article is very helpful for me, thanks a lot man

By: Hitesh

Hitesh — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:03:01 +0000

Hii, Its work for me with route-dev file, Thanks man

By: echikoz

echikoz — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:43:46 +0000

it worked for me by using the following command:
route add [ipadd] netmask [mask] gw [gateway] interface name

By: sri

sri — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:16:38 +0000

I have one problem. I need add static route under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0.2 and
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0.3.

route-eth0.2
GATEWAY0=192.168.1.1 ( this is vlan 2 ip address configured in router)
NETMASK0=255.0.0.0
ADDRESS0=10.0.0.0

route-eth0.3
GATEWAY0=192.168.2.1( this is vlan 3 ip address configured in router)
NETMASK0=255.0.0.0
ADDRESS0=10.0.0.0

the problem is destination IP address is same. the different is gateway address. because, VLAN2(etho.2) and VLAN 3(eth0.3) are routed by different paths( i mean different layer-3 devices)

once i add those and restart the network services, it shows only one route for that destination

could you please help me to figure out the problem

By: sujit

sujit — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:50:21 +0000

how to start samba service in aix5.3

By: sujit

sujit — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:07:35 +0000

how to add permant route in RHEL4 is any file in that i need to change any conf

By: Steve Harper

Steve Harper — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:46:10 +0000

Apparently your syntax is also supported, but the latest search I did of the RHEL4 support documentation yields the following URL for persistent static routes and the syntax of the route-ethX file:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_45_9670.shtm

The Redhat recommended syntax is:
10.0.1.0/24 via 192.168.2.4 dev eth0
or
default via 192.168.2.4 dev eth0