[CentOS] Centos 6 - Persistant static routes

Thu Mar 12 17:52:05 UTC 2015
Jason Warr <jason at warr.net>

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:43:27 -0500, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>  
wrote:

> I know how to use 'ip' to set up a static route, e.g.:
>
> ip route add 192.168.128.0/17 via 40.53.24.3 dev eth0
>
> But if you reboot or restart network, you loose this.  Thus you have to  
> make it persistant.  I found:
>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/configuring-static-routes-in-debian-or-red-hat-linux-systems.html
>
> where it says to add to ifcfg-eth0:
>
> 192.168.128.0/17 via 40.53.24.3
>

Create the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0

Add the following for each static route, incrementing the numeric for each:

ADDRESS0=192.168.128.0
NETMASK0=255.255.128.0
GATEWAY0=40.53.24.3

> But this did not work after the interface was restarted.  So what is the  
> proper to set up persistant static routes?
>
>
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