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Re: how to add route to the routing tables?
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 :-)
(yes, of course it's possible to cat>>/etc/rc.local all sorts
of route commands, but that's not Right Thing to do, because
the routes will happen very late in the boot process, etc.)
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