Static Routes via DHCP - How to do?

[Roger Grosswiler]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> 
>> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>
>>> You'd probably want this then:
>>>
>>> option static-route 192.168.1.0 10.0.0.3,
>>>             192.168.2.0 10.0.0.3,
>>>             192.168.3.0 10.0.0.3;
>>>
>>> However, it probably won't work; if you look at 
>>> http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=dhcp-options it says:
>>>
>>>   Also, please note that this option is not intended for classless IP
>>>   routing - it does not include a subnet mask. Since classless IP
>>>   routing is now the most widely deployed routing standard, this option
>>>   is virtually useless, and is not implemented by any of the popular
>>>   DHCP clients, for example the Microsoft DHCP client.
>>
>>
>> thats exactly what i tried before, but it even did not work on fedora 
>> core. This will mean, i have to make some kind of hack the get the 
>> routing fixed in the routing table. I'm gonna write a very little 
>> shell-script and let it execute on boot-up. I think, on windoze i can 
>> indicate them also as fixed route per client. :-( It would have been 
>> luxury...
> 
> 
> You don't need to script this on linux. Assuming you've only got one NIC 
> on your clients (eth0), create a file on each client called 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 that contains the following:
> 
> 192.168.1.0/24 via 10.0.0.3
> 192.168.2.0/24 via 10.0.0.3
> 192.168.3.0/24 via 10.0.0.3
> 
> That should have the desired effect.
> 
> Paul.
> 

cool, gonna give this a try :-)

Roger