I am having trouble setting up permenant routes for my network interfaces,
below my config :
ETH0 :
172.23.137.27 Netmask /25 – 255.255.255.128 Gateway – 192.168.126.126
ETH1 : Trunk VLAN – VLAN ID : 305
172.21.107.123 Netmask /28 – 255.255.255.240 Gateway – 172.21.107.113
interfaces config are as follow :
cat ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 HWADDR=2C:59:E5:42:CB:EC TYPE=Ethernet #UUID=eefb4ac8-42ba-4fc3-9918-08aae7edef3b ONBOOT=yes #NM_CONTROLLED=no BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.126.27 NETMASK=255.255.255.128 GATEWAY=192.168.126.126 #USERCTL=no cat ifcfg-eth1 DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=2C:59:E5:42:CB:ED UUID=68f6c45e-48ba-4b33-8da7-d4d7979eb72d ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none NM_CONTROLED=no cat ifcfg-eth1.305 DEVICE=eth1.305 VLAN=yes ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static TYPE=Ethernet IPADDR=172.21.107.123 NETMASK=255.255.255.240 GATEWAY=172.21.107.113 #NM_CONTROLLED=no route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 172.21.107.112 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 0 0 eth1.305 192.168.126.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.192.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth3 0.0.0.0 172.21.107.113 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1.30
The default route works only if i insert it manually :
route del default gw 192.168.126.126 eth0
But did not work using : route-eth0 under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
Best Answer
For any network device which is not my default gateway, I usually set the default route flag to no:
This seems to work without any issues for my servers with multiple network interfaces. If you then restart your network service or interfaces, you should be able to check the routes to see that this is actually working:
Hopefully this helps.