Infrastructure Software

Hi Guys,

New to the forum, have got an issue while setting up static routing.

i have got a VM on OEL5u6, normal setup without any static routing has got the below routing table...

[root@oraclelinuxvm1 network-scripts]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.167.25.0 * 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0 eth0-eth1
192.169.25.0 * 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0 eth1
10.0.4.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth2
192.168.122.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 virbr0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1002 0 0 eth0-eth1
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1003 0 0 eth1
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1004 0 0 eth2
default 10.0.4.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth2

i want to change this and use the box as a gateway so that 192.167.25.0 passes through 192.167.25.2 and 192.169.25.0 passes through 192.169.25.2 (both of them configured on separte eths) .. now i can do this quite easily using the ip route add command and once done it works happily, however the issue comes when i try to use persistence (so that the setup remains like this during reboots)

created files

[root@oraclelinuxvm1 network-scripts]# ls route*
route-eth0-eth1 route-eth1

contents as follows

[root@oraclelinuxvm1 network-scripts]# cat route*
#default via 192.167.25.2 dev eth0-eth1
192.167.25.0/29 via 192.167.25.2 dev eth0-eth1
default via 192.169.25.2 dev eth1
192.169.25.0/29 via 192.169.25.2 dev eth1


now with this in place when i try to either do ifdown followed by a ifup or restart the service it gives me a

[root@oraclelinuxvm1 network-scripts]# service network restart
Shutting down interface eth0-eth1: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface eth1: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0-eth1: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
[ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth1: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
[ OK ]


consequently the route doesn't reflect any changes ... i have roamed around google but don't seem to pin point the issue, i realise that somehow the ifups and the restart of the n/w service is setting up the route first for the subnets and the route files i created are referenced next, since the routes are already set the route file when referenced to set the rotues next encounteres and error...


so can you guys point me in the direction of resolving this? much appreciated.

Regards Amit