[TriLUG] iproute2 persistence

[Kevin Otte]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 07:16:12AM -0700, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Brian Henning wrote:
> 
> >Hiya Gang,
> >  Is there a standard place to put iproute2 settings (ip rule, ip 
> >route, etc) to be reloaded on startup, or do I just add the necessary 
> >lines to rc.local?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >~Brian
> >
> Most distro's don't have a simple place to drop in such rules, at this 
> time.  Depending on how picky you are / need to be about when things are 
> loaded, and how clean you want to keep your init scripts, you may want 
> to make an additional init script for it.

Another option is to reference them in the network up script.  In Debian /
Ubuntu, this is done by adding an "up" line for the interface in
/etc/network/interfaces.  Don't know about RH/CentOS.

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