On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:28:16PM -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:

Quoting Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org:

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Hi all;

I have a custom iproute2 table and a few rules to go along with it (CentOS 5) -- I have added the table to /etc/iproute2/rt_tables.

if-up and friends doesn't seem to handle this real gracefully. How are those of you out there doing something similar managing this customization?

I don't really want to muck with /etc/init.d/network or the if-up scripts to avoid breaking upgrades. rc.local my best bet?

I have a file named /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/rule-eth0 which contains my rules for eth0 and a file named /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 which are read by /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-routes and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes.

The contents of my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/rule-eth0 is: from 10.X.X.X/24 table testtable

The contents of my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 is: default via 10.X.X.1 table testtable 10.X.X.0/24 dev eth0 table testtable 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo table testtable

For completeness, I have the following in /etc/iproute2/rt_tables: 100 testtable

There is no modification of /etc/init.d/network or any of the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if* files.

Hope this helps.

Barry

Many thanks Barry.

Ray