route goes on reboot ?

2002-05-02 Thread Kapil Khosla
Hi, In my current configuration , I have to do an ifconfig eth0 IP addr and route commands everytime I reboot. The problem is on reboot, all these settings vanish and I have to give these commands again. I sort of know that these have to be put in some /etc/rc** but am not sure which file do I

Re: route goes on reboot ?

2002-05-02 Thread David Smead
Put the info in /etc/network/interfaces. Mine looks like: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.8.30 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.8.0 broadcast 192.168.8.255 gateway 192.168.8.254 Technically you don't need all the fields but I put

Re: route goes on reboot ?

2002-05-02 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello David Smead [EMAIL PROTECTED], BTW, if I have multiple routing table, where can I define so that it will work upon reboot? On Wed, 1 May 2002 21:59:25 -0700 (PDT) David Smead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the info in /etc/network/interfaces. Mine looks like: auto eth0 iface eth0

Re: route goes on reboot ?

2002-05-02 Thread David Smead
Someone more knowledgeable than me will correct this if I'm wrong, but I think /etc/rc.boot gets executed after everything else. You can put route commmands there. Then again, you need to worry about what happens on a networking restart. If that clears the routing table then you'll need to call

Re: route goes on reboot ?

2002-05-02 Thread John F
Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello David Smead [EMAIL PROTECTED], BTW, if I have multiple routing table, where can I define so that it will work upon reboot? To set 'special' routing instructions use the 'up', 'down', 'pre-uo' and 'post-down' options in /etc/networks/interfaces. I've found them