Lorenzo Quatrini wrote:
More detail on this: digging a bit on the network-scripts I found that there are few checks and calls to /sbin/ifup-pre-local, /sbin/ifup-local, /sbin/ifdown-pre-local, /sbin/ifdown-local, so I guess that this is the "right" place to put ip routes and rules commands.
i dunno, i would sort of assume the -local functions are for the localhost interface (/dev/lo), and the idea of having system specific config files in /sbin/ is somewhat abhorrant.
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 in fact, my 'AFAIK there is no provision' is in fact wrong, at least in CentOS 5.x....