Re: [CentOS] Static routes with a metric?

On 12/7/2011 10:03 AM, Matt Garman wrote:

Hi,

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What I basically need to be able to do is this: route add -host h1 gw g1 metric 0 route add -host h1 gw g2 metric 10

Notice that everything is the same except the gateway and metric. I could put this in /etc/rc.local, but was wondering if there's a cleaner way to do it in e.g. the network-scripts directory.

If you create files in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory named according to the scheme

route-eth0 route-eth1 route-eth2

it will execute each line in the files as

/sbin/ip route add <line>

when each interface is brought up.

Look in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes script for all the gory details and features.