CentOS - Aug 2008 - Is there a way to save the routing table permanently?

I'm adding the default gateway to the route through "route add default
gw
10.10.10.10" which is also shown in "route -n" but the problem is
that as
soon as I restart the network through /etc/init.d/network restart; the route
sets to default one...!
SO, my question is there any way to save the modified route permanently by
hardcoding the changes?

Thanks.
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, ABBAS KHAN wrote:
> I'm adding the default gateway to the route through "route add
default gw
> 10.10.10.10" which is also shown in "route -n" but the
problem is that as
> soon as I restart the network through /etc/init.d/network restart; the
route
> sets to default one...!
> SO, my question is there any way to save the modified route permanently by
> hardcoding the changes?
There are several ways, actually.

System-config-network is one way, or if like me you prefer to edit the config
files by hand you can edit the files in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
or the file /etc/sysconfig/network. There needs to be a GATEWAY= line in one of
those files. If you have an existing GATEWAY line modify it to taste. If you
have no default gateway I would suggest putting it in /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth?.
Where the ? corresponds to the interface that points to the gateway.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

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You can place the statement in /etc/sysconfg/static-routes.

 

This file will be used when the network starts up.

 

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I'm adding the default gateway to the route through "route add default
gw
10.10.10.10" which is also shown in "route -n" but the problem is
that as
soon as I restart the network through /etc/init.d/network restart; the route
sets to default one...!
SO, my question is there any way to save the modified route permanently by
hardcoding the changes?

Thanks.

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ABBAS KHAN wrote:
> I'm adding the default gateway to the route through "route add
default
> gw 10.10.10.10 <http://10.10.10.10>" which is also shown in
"route -n"
> but the problem is that as soon as I restart the network through 
> /etc/init.d/network restart; the route sets to default one...!
> SO, my question is there any way to save the modified route permanently 
> by hardcoding the changes?
It would be very nice if the init.d script would allow the sysadmin to 
do something like "service network saveroutes". I always thought that 
would be a neat feature.

It should probably go into Red Hat's bugzilla before it gets implemented.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/