Florin Andrei wrote: > ABBAS KHAN wrote: >> I'm adding the default gateway to the route through "route add default >> gw 10.10.10.10 <http://10.10.10.10>" which is also shown in "route -n" >> but the problem is that as soon as I restart the network through >> /etc/init.d/network restart; the route sets to default one...! >> SO, my question is there any way to save the modified route >> permanently by hardcoding the changes? > > It would be very nice if the init.d script would allow the sysadmin to > do something like "service network saveroutes". I always thought that > would be a neat feature. Routes only work when you can reach the next hop. That is, if you try to add a route through an interface that is not up, the command will fail and the route will not be added. If you want a route to be added when an interface comes up, there is already a place to do that. However, as others have pointed out you shouldn't expect multiple concurrent default routes to do something useful - but if you have multiple interfaces you can configure them both to add default routes and bring only one up at a time. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com