i am running redhat 8.0 on my machine. I was having problems SAVING a default route to my routing table.

:/sbin/route add default gw router

however, this default route is deleted everything i restart the network services.


I've the same problem as the post before but the question was not answered.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ht=route+table

from here i've also tried adding

/etc/sysconfig/static-route but still doesn't seem to save it once i reboot!
help pplease.

I don't have a RH system, but I think it uses System V style scripts, and the startup scripts for SystemV typically reside in /etc/rc#.d where # is the runlevel for when you want the script to start. I would put the static route stuff in runlevel 3 (multi-user mode, run before X if you boot to X). So, you should make a link from /etc/sysconfig/static-route to /etc/rc3.d/S10static-route. The S tells init that the script is to be run on startup, and 10 tells it when to start it. The number (10, in my example) should come after the network startup (static-route should have a higher number than the network stuff).

Isn't the default route set up by networking, based on the info from /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifcfg-<device>?

Typically the default route IS set up during network setups, but if you need another static route, you'd have to either add it to the config there or somewhere. . . For example, my home system uses DHCP to get its IP address, but I have several routes that I keep static so I only have a couple of hops to my work. This is set in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 for my system.