"ip route add" doesn't keep changes on network restart
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"ip route add" doesn't keep changes on network restart
I have 2 adapters, one on a private ip, and one on a public ip. Every time my machine reboots or I restart the network adapters, the default route goes back to my private network. I have to manually set it to use the adapter on the public network with
ip route add default via [gateway ip] dev eth0
as soon as i restart anything, it is gone again. How can i make these changes permanent? I put the above line in rc.local to fix it for now but that seems like a silly way to do it, it also makes ntpdate wait forever to time out on startup. Am i missing a step to make it save the changes?
you've not said what distro you are using, but you'd want to formally set a default gateway in /etc/sysconfig/networks in fedora / redhat etc... that's if you have completely static IP addressing. DHCP should take care of this normally.
That'd be the right format AFAIR. but that would normally be automatically entered by using a gui tool e.g. system-config-network. personally i'd just go direct to the file though...
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