Adding the routes and rules to the appropriate files in network-scripts did not work. It gave me a number of errors and did not create the rules after reboot or/and network restart.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
<christopher.chan@bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>> in fact, upon some digging, it looks like you put RULES in
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/rule-ethX and ROUTES in
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-ethX
>>
>> the lines in the rule-* file are run prefixed by `ip rule add` while the
>> lines in the route-* file are prefixed by `ip route add` on an interface
>> 'up' event, and on the corresponding 'down' event, they are prefixed by
>> ip {route|rule} del ....
>>
>
> So does anyone have a clue on which is the syntax for creating complex routes
> and rules using route-* and rule-*?
>
Heh. I have not had time to go through the network scripts...last thing
I heard about was route-* but that was Centos/RHEL 4. Docs have been
lacking on this side of things...