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Re: how to add route to the routing tables?
Gaal Yahas wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:15:53PM +0000, Oded Arbel wrote:
>
> > > You didn't tell us which distribution you use, so I can't tell
> > > you what's the "proper" way of setting this to be persistent across
> > > boots, but if you use redhat, edit the files
>
> > the "proper" way of configuring net stuff in redhat involves using their X
> > config tool - netcfg . it contains almost everything you need to do , so
> > the best way to work, is using netcfg to setup the basic stuff, and after
> > that works you can tweak it by going "hands on" with the files.
>
> A shell is a shell. People may find it more convenient of less
> convenient to use it, depending on how comfortable they are with
> the system, with the command line, etc. I believe recent (>5.1)
> versions of Red Hat have started using linuxconf for these things,
> so you can even do "netconf".
>
> However, I was referring to the underlying operation, which I
> believe is much more important to understand than "how to do it
> in the GUI". The proper *back-end* way to do it is through the
> hooks in /etc/sysconfig - front ends are just front ends, and
> will come and go :-)
>
Well said. Also, there may be times that you want to add software that
to your system (your own) that needs to update these files. If so you need
to understand them, so that you don't conflict with what utilities are already
on
the system. As much as possible you want any of your own concocted sysadmin
scripts to work in harmony with your distributions admin scripts....otherwise,
why
by a distribution?
There are times of course were you may need for philosophical reasons to part
roads (that is to stray from the use your distributions admin utilitiies and
scipts) in order
to meet your specific goals and perfectly meet your needs. In most cases,
though, you should
try to understand your distribution and work with it rather than against it.
..james