LARTC - Nov 2000 - invalid table ID

Greetings

The ip route how-to describes the following for setting up source routing

#echo 501 uras.out >> /etc/iproute2/rt_table
#ip rule add from 10.0.0.0/24 table uras.out

The first line complains of a missing directory, which is simple fixed
(create dir iproute2 in etc)
The second line then reports

Error: argument "uras.out" is wrong: invalid table ID

The op sys is RH 7. I had exactly the same problem with 6.2 and was hoping 7
would solve, but did not. Any ideas?

Regards
Warren

ps
The specs on iproute2 look great. Thanks to all those who contributed. I
just wish I could get it working.

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:46:56PM +0200, Warren Flemmer wrote:
> #echo 501 uras.out >> /etc/iproute2/rt_table
> #ip rule add from 10.0.0.0/24 table uras.out
> 
> The first line complains of a missing directory, which is simple fixed
> (create dir iproute2 in etc)
> The second line then reports
> 
> Error: argument "uras.out" is wrong: invalid table ID
Try writing to rt_tables instead of rt_table. The HOWTO mentions this
correctly.
> The specs on iproute2 look great. Thanks to all those who contributed. I
> just wish I could get it working.
You can now :-)

Regards,

bert hubert

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