I'm trying to save a route that I've added for my RHEL ES4 and I've have done some research on this and everyone seems to say just to create a shell script and add it into rc.local which i've done but if I do the command

services network restart

it loses any routes that I've added, I know when I've done this in SuSE it saves it no problem but for some reason Redhat is being stupid like that...

Thanks for any help on this issue... and the shell script I wrote simply states

/sbin/routes add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 10.100.6.254

Note I wrote myself after I did this on RHEL AS 4:

Example command line:

route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 10.0.52.54 metric 1

To make it permanent (automatic start) create route-eth1 file in the directory /etc/sysconfig (associates route for eth1 with IP of eth0 NIC) with the following lines:

GATEWAY0=10.0.52.54
NETMASK0=255.0.0.0
ADDRESS0=10.0.0.0


I didn't do anything in /etc/rc.local on RHEL AS 4 - just the above.

awesome... it worked, thanks alot!

No problem.

Thanks for the feedback - many newbies never post follow ups so you always wonder if they were abducted by aliens after the initial post.

lol... yeah I would imagine that being annoying after awhile with dealing with that...

common courtesy would be to repost just so people know what works and what doesn't.

again thanks