[CentOS] Centos 6 - Persistant static routes

Thu Mar 12 19:51:21 UTC 2015
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Jason Warr <jason at warr.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:43:27 -0500, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>
> That’s only for RHEL 7: http://goo.gl/AtjIyI

Aside from being irritating, that's just wrong.   I'm using that
syntax on Centos5,

>> ADDRESS0=192.168.128.0
>> NETMASK0=255.255.128.0
>> GATEWAY0=40.53.24.3
>
> This is the scheme used in prior versions of RHEL.

I think both types of syntax will work in all versions.  The GUI tools
do the latter form.

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   Les Mikesell
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