Re: Re making routes permanent

[Thomas Lamy <Thomas.Lamy@netwake.de>]

Tarragon Allen wrote:
> >
> > e.g. something like this in /etc/network/interfaces:
> >
> > iface eth0 inet static
> >   address x.x.x.x
> >   netmask 255.255.255.0
> >   broadcast x.x.x.255
> >   up route add -net y.y.y.y gw z.z.z.z
> >   up route add -net a.a.a.a gw z.z.z.z
> 
> And you should really put corresponding "route del"s in there 
> too, otherwise 
> you could end up with duplicated routes and all sorts of 
> funniness if your IP 
> is changing a bit (not too likely, but better to be neat than sorry).
> 
This is not needed, since AFAIK routes through one interface are
automatically removed when the interface is reconfigured or goes down

Thomas