[NTLUG:Discuss] setting routes with mandrake 9.0

[Greg Edwards]

Jay Urish wrote:
> Hey group-
> I am pulling my hair out over something that I know is dead simple.
> 
> I have 2 NICs in my mandrake 9.0 server. One has a public IP a.a.a.a the 
> other is on a private LAN b.b.b.b
> 


> 
> I found a file /etc/sysconfig/static routes but the kernel or netscript 
> seems to be ignoring it.
> 
> It looks like this at the moment
> root at ns:/etc/sysconfig>cat static-routes
> eth1 net 192.168.11.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.11.1
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Jay Urish       W5GM            Systems/Network Engineer
> Unixwolf Enterprises    972.691.0125    972.965.6229
> 

Jay,

There is a bug in the /sbin/ifup script in 9.0.

After many hours of pulling hair I removed the following and my routes 
resolved.

=========================================================================
#    [ -n "$NO_ARPING" ] || \
#       if ! arping -q -c 2 -w 3 -D -I ${REALDEVICE} ${IPADDR} ; then
#       echo $"Error, some other host already uses address ${IPADDR}."
#       exit 1
#    fi
=========================================================================

I never did figure out what the real problem was but since I KNOW that 
an address collision is not an issue this worked.  The problem seems to 
be fixed in 9.1 since I didn't need to make this change on my 9.1 boxes.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Greg Edwards
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