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

[Carl Brewer]

Alexey Toptygin wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Carl Brewer wrote:
> 
>>> 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?
> 
> 
> I haven't used RedHat in a while, but IIRC you can put 
> GATEWAY=192.168.239.1
> into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interface> file

That does the equivalent to the src route above?


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