On 06/06/2014 06:23 AM, lee wrote: > George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu> writes: > >> *I* care about the documentation that didn't work, so that other >> people don't trip over the same thing. :-) If you've walked this >> path and become frustrated, there are probably a dozen other people >> who have also walked it and just not said anything. > To give an example: > > https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s1-networkscripts-static-routes.html > > > [root at charon ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > DEVICE="eth0" > BOOTPROTO=none > DNS1="192.168.178.20" > IPADDR="192.168.1.1" > NETMASK="255.255.255.255" > NM_CONTROLLED=no > ONBOOT="yes" > TYPE="Ethernet" > UUID="1b645d25-9f66-4335-ba0b-939cdd9f553f" > > [root at charon ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 > 192.168.178.0/24 via 192.168.1.1 eth0 syntax error. you need a "dev" before eth0. which actually is useless to append anyway because the interface is already specified in the file name > default 192.168.178.200 dev eth0 syntax error. you miss a "via" before the IP of the gateway > > [root at charon ~]# service network restart > Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ] > Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ] > Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] > Bringing up interface eth0: Determining if ip address 192.168.1.1 is already in use for device eth0... > Error: either "to" is duplicate, or "eth0" is a garbage. explained by the syntax error from the first line in route-eth0 > Error: either "to" is duplicate, or "192.168.178.200" is a garbage. explained by the syntax error from the second line in route-eth0 > [ OK ] > [root at charon ~]# route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > [root at charon ~]# explained by the fact that your route-eth0 file doesn't contain any correct line