[CentOS] 2nd NIC troubles

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
<slackmoehrle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So this is a static route. I trued what you suggested and the eth1
> interface stalls to come up. It just wont. All ssh sessions get
> disconnected and everything stops working
>
> I did:
>
> [root at meowbox network-scripts]# cat route-eth1
> 10.0.0.0/8 via 10.0.254.1
>
> I found:
> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s1-networkscripts-static-routes.html
>
> So I changed it to:
>
> [root at meowbox network-scripts]# cat route-eth1
> 10.0.0.0/8 via 10.0.254.1 dev eth1

Interesting - I've never had to specify the device when it can be
deduced from the interface IP and netmask.  And I've never been able
to make much sense out of the 'ip' man page either to tell what is
actually required.

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  Les Mikesell
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