On 03/12/2015 04:12 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: >>>>>> 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, >> >> AH, I think I see what I did wrong. I put that line in the ifcfg-eth0 when >> according to this page, it goes in the route-eth0 just like the old format. >> I will give that a try tomorrow... >> > Yes, I missed that part. You can put a default gateway in the > ifcfg-xxxx file with GATEWAY= but if you have more than one NIC you > should only have one GATEWAY= entry for the NIC facing that router, > and any routes in a route-xxx file should be through a router where > the next hop specified is reachable though the xxx-named interface. > The routes are added as the interfaces are brought up and will fail if > the gateway specified isn't reachable - as might happen if they need > to go through an interface that isn't up yet. If you only have one > interface you don't have to worry about that - the default GATEWAY= > can be in ifcfg-eth0 and the static route(s) through a different > router on the same subnet go in route-eth0. > What I really need to do is get RIP working on that router and get my servers to listen to RIP... One leap at a time!