Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK wrote: > > Which Solaris release are you talking about here? > > /etc/init.d/network hasn't existed since Solaris 9, and there is no > "restart" option anyway. > > If Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris with nwam disabled, then either of the two > methods below will add the router, but method #2 will only persist until > you reboot.
It might be easier to explain that the network/physical service reads the /etc/defaultrouter file at boot time, and invokes "route add default" for each of the addresses it finds in that file. (The file may contain a list.) See /lib/svc/method/net-physical for the actual implementation. So, they're really the same thing -- one drives the other -- rather than being two different mechanisms. It's very much like the difference between /etc/hostname.* and ifconfig. The system boot scripts read the /etc/hostname.* files and invoke ifconfig for you. If this is a relatively modern Solaris release, you can also do "route -p add ..." to add persistent routes. Those are stored separately from /etc/defaultrouter, and have the advantage that you can store arbitrary network routes as well as just "default" (0/0) routes. You can also use the static route service in Zebra/Quagga to manage routes. That has the advantage of being integrated with a fairly complete routing solution. The one thing you should _not_ do is attempt to use /etc/gateways to add static routes. It "sort of" works in some cases, but it usually ends in tears. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carls...@workingcode.com> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list networking-discuss@opensolaris.org
