"Filipe Brandenburger" <filbranden@gmail.com>
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> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Eric B.
> <ebenze@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> The last question then is if there is a way to add "ip rule" rules to
>> specify which routing table to use based on packet information.
>> ex: ip rule add fwmark 3 table 3
>>
>> Are any of the network scripts able to handle this as well?
>
> If you look at the end of the same script (ifup-routes), you'll see
> that it reads rules from file
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/rule-eth0. For each line in that file,
> it will run "/sbin/ip rule add $line". It's unfortunate that this
> isn't all better documented somewhere. But on Linux you can always...
> Use the source, Luke!

Really? I looked through ifup-routes but I don't see anything that searches
for rule-<ifname> anywhere. All my ifup-routes looks for is files called
route-$2. Further more a quick "grep rule /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*"
finds nothing.

My last two lines in ifup-routes (unless I don't know how to read them
properly) are:
# Red Hat network configuration format
NICK=${2:-$1}
CONFIG="/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/$NICK.route"
[ -f $CONFIG ] && handle_file $CONFIG $1

And if I look at handle_file method, I see all it does is call /sbin/ip
route add $line.

Am I missing something obvious somewhere? Or do you have a different
version of ifup-routes? I'm running CentOS4 with the latest patches....

Thanks again!

Eric



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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Eric B. <ebenze@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Am I missing something obvious somewhere? Or do you have a different
> version of ifup-routes? I'm running CentOS4 with the latest patches....

I'm running CentOS5 here, that's probably new in CentOS5.

You may consider appending the last 15 lines of ifup-routes from
CentOS5 to your CentOS4 installation. It's not that beautiful but it's
not that ugly either. At least it's forward compatible in a way that
if you upgrade to CentOS5 later it will continue working. I'm sending
the file attached to you in case you want to do it.

HTH,
Filipe
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