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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/net routes
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 21:01:33
Message-Id: 8224987.lC0tPsGnJ4@dell_xps
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] conf.d/net routes by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Saturday, 2 September 2017 19:54:48 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote:
2 > What is the exact syntax of the *_routes lines in the /etc/conf.d/net
3 > file, or where is it documented?
4 >
5 > The wiki gives a couple of examples, but they are all either just for
6 > dhcp (so no configurable routes) or else they are of the form
7 >
8 > eth0_routes="default via eth0"
9 >
10 > "via" is not something I can use on the command line of the route
11 > command, at least according to its manpage. So it can't be just
12 > straight repetition of the command line. But then, what is it?
13 >
14 > Motivation: I want to add a route for a point-to-point interface.
15
16 The /usr/share/doc/netifrc-0.5.1/net.example.bz2 page offers this:
17
18 10.0.0.0/8 via 192.168.0.1
19
20 Is this what you are after?
21
22 If you want to add a route in real time using the CLI, then this would work:
23
24 ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0
25
26 --
27 Regards,
28 Mick

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