[LARTC] Setting an alias as the "default" IP address, or something similar?

[Carl Brewer]

Alexander Samad wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:30:48PM +1100, Carl Brewer wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> Ive had a poke around through various linux routing documents,
>> but haven't found what I think is an elegant solution to a
>> routing issue I'm having with a hosting provider and RHEL ES 4 running
>> in a VMware VM.
>>
>> Here's a diagram of the situation :
>>
>>
>>      Default route
>>      at provider         our host (A)
>>      72.3.230.1/26 ---- 72.3.230.30/26         the VM (B)
>>                         192.168.239.1/24 ----- 192.168.239.2/24
>>                                                72.3.205.160/32
>>
> hi 
> 
> maybe I am missign something but can't your just use this
> 
> ip r a default via 192.168.239.1 src 72.3.205.160
> 
> plus you might need this as well
> ip r a 192.168.239.0/24 src 192.168.239.2

I just needed the first one, thankyou.  That worked a treat.

Out of curiosity, I have that command currently in rc.local, but is
there a better place to put it in the redhat startup sequence? Normally
it'd do in /etc/sysconfig/network but I'm not sure of the possibility of
putting that sort of thing in there?



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