Permanently establishing an entry in the routing table?

[William C Brennan <brennan@netaxs.com>]

Title: Permanently establishing an entry in the routing table

Folks,

I'm connecting a small network for the first time.  My setup is simple:

                      ----------------          --------

                     |                |        |        |

    Internet ------- |      chad      | -------|  luke  |

                     | (masquerading  |        |        |

                     |  gateway)      |         --------

                      ----------------

luke uses chad as a gateway to access the Internet.

I've gotten this configuration to run.  There's only one problem (so far)...

Luke is a machine which is only up occasionally (it's in my bedroom and the

fans are noisy).  Currently, whenever I boot up luke, as superuser I type

        "route add default gw chad"

which allows luke to access the world on the other side of chad. 

But this command is only good until I shut luke down.

What is the "standard" way to permanently add a route to luke's routing table,

so I don't have to manually do it after booting?  It must be obvious,

but I can't seem to find this documented anywhere.

Thanks!

-- Bill

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brennan@netaxs.com
Bill Brennan
Wayne, PA