HELP: making static routes permanent between reboots in fedora core 2

[Mike Kercher]

fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com <> scribbled on :

> Hi,
> 
> I have been grappling with this problem for the several hours.
> 
> My host: 192.168.252.2
> Target: 144.16.49.32
> Gateway: 192.168.252.1
> 
> I added the route using "route add" and everything was
> working fine. But when I rebooted the machine, all the
> changes are gone, i.e., "route"
> command doesn't show the gateway in the list.  I tried
> various things including using the system-config-network GUI. I also
> have the following in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0:
> GATEWAY0=192.168.252.1
> NETMASK0=255.255.255.0
> ADDRESS0=144.16.49.32
> 
> I also tried various things that were suggested in the web
> about static routes in Redhat 9. Nothing seems to work.
> 
> It will be great if some can tell me the procedure for adding
> static routes that will survive the reboots.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sathish

Add your 'route add' command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local