Comments on: HowTo: Add a Static Route (persistent) in Sun Solaris

By: Sam Rajiev

Sam Rajiev — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:18:17 +0000

How to route two ips which is in two different networks?

By: Nik

Nik — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:11:59 +0000

What about assigning a route to a specific interface? I am using Solaris 10, and I’d like to specify that a specific host be routed through my bge1 interface.

I’ve tried several flavors of:

route add -host a.b.c.d -iface bge1

but each comes back w/ “bge1: bad value”.

By: Chad

Chad — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:39:58 +0000

In Solaris 10, the static routes are kept in /etc/inet/static_routes, but that file is to be maintained by using the “-p” (persistant) switch to the “route” command.

By: Brad Bender

Brad Bender — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:23:25 +0000

As of Solaris 10 the ‘-p’ permanent flag was added to ‘/usr/sbin/route’.

route -p add default w.x.y.z

Now your route is permanent and will persist across reboots. Using /etc/rc?.d scripts is a BAD idea because with SMF your routes may get added after a dependant service is started.

By: Madhu

Madhu — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:04:09 +0000

Simply writing ‘route add’ etc., in a text file and save it as /etc/rc2.d/S76static-routes works fine for me

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By: ad

ad — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:40:46 +0000

To add a gateway :

# route add default 192.168.100.123
# echo 192.168.100.123 > /etc/defaultrouter

By: amol

amol — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:23:03 +0000

how to configure gateway in sun solaris 10 operating system, i configure the ip address with help of “ifconfig” command. pls help me!!

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:34:44 +0000

What is a ‘starup script’?

Do you mean an empty text file, with the command,

route add net 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 1

for example, added in the first line?

How do you know, from the output of netstat -rn, what gateway to put in? What netmask to use?

Why is the file called /etc/rc2.d/S76static-routes? Does the S76 have significance? Is it always S76 or does the number change based upon the situation?

Why is there a hyphen there in the name? Other writeups have just S, a number, and the word ‘staticroutes’. Does it matter?

How do you test a static route to make sure it worked?

I cannot find any of this information on the web.

Unfortunately I cannot reboot the box I am on, so I have no way of knowing if this ‘permanent’ route will come back.

By: nigel dion

nigel dion — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:57:41 +0000

if you have a destop with ip 172.19.6.50 to access using a port 7588 to a server with ip 10.1.3.56 on solaris operating system.{solaris 10)

how do go about opening the port.