Static Routes via DHCP - How to do?

[Roger Grosswiler]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:56 -0600, David Hoffman wrote:
> 
>>>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.
>>
>>
>>If there is only one NIC on the clients, and if the default gateway is
>>at 10.0.0.3, then how is this any different than setting 10.0.0.3 to
>>the default gw?
> 
> 
> His default gateway is 10.0.0.2 and there is no route to the 192.168
> networks from there. If he changes default gateway to 10.0.0.3, he won't
> be able to connect to the Internet from his 10.x clients because the
> router at 10.0.0.3 has no default route itself.
> 
> Paul.
exactly, thanks Paul, this did the trick.

Roger :-)