[PLUG] Networking commands: debian => sysv: translation

Dan Young danielmyoung at gmail.com
Wed May 31 14:45:41 UTC 2006


On 5/31/06, Roderick A. Anderson <raanders at acm.org> wrote:
> Dan Young wrote:
> > On 5/30/06, Roderick A. Anderson <raanders at acm.org> wrote:
> >
> >> The commands make sense but I'm not sure how to do it in the sysv (
> >> Redhat/Fedora/WB/CentOS ) way.  I don't remember ever setting any routes
> >> using the standard init scripts etc. ( More system magic going on? )
> >
> >
> > The magic all happens in /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts. The
> > routing config isn't really well documented, but it uses the "/bin/ip
> > route" syntax. Not sure about the "ip rule" routing policy parts. The
> > rest should be something like this:
>
> Dan.  Thank you.  It was the route-ethx information I missed seeing.
>
> Well a closer look shows the script is suppose to be in a non-existant
> directory.  '/etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/' doesn't exist on any of
> the ( Redhat/Fedora/CentOS ) systems I've checked ( so far. )

Oops, my transcribing was bad. Should be in:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

> I can't even find how those files would be called.  I do remember from
> years ago there being a route in init.d but a quick check on a couple of
> systems doesn't find it any more.  The rpm database shows an iproute.
>
> Any other suggestions or places to look?  I'll start the Google searches
> now that I have a clue as to what I'm looking for.

The route config file doesn't exist by default, and was new as of RH9:
http://www.akadia.com/services/redhat_static_routes.html

-- 
Dan



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