From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carl Brewer Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:49:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Setting an alias as the "default" IP address, or something Message-Id: <43D47C5E.3040401@vivitec.com.au> List-Id: References: <43D43FD8.1070008@vivitec.com.au> In-Reply-To: <43D43FD8.1070008@vivitec.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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? -- ===========Vivitec Pty. Ltd. Suite 6, 51-55 City Rd. Southbank, 3006. Ph. +61 3 8626 5626 Fax +61 3 9682 1000 ===========_______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc