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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : Matthew Western <mwestern@affairs.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 15:08:22 +1030

Re: Routing - Best Practices

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:50:16PM +1030, Matthew Western wrote:

> I'm learning Linux coming from mostly windows background (sad i know).

My condolences :-)

> I found there is static-routes file but when i edit this i can't figure out
> how to apply these changes without rebooting or restarting the networking.

Which distribution are you running? I'll assume that you're running
something derived from RedHat (Ptew!), but you really should specify
that.

You'll probably have to restart networking if you're on RedHat. The
hierarchy that RedHat have setup in terms of service control isn't
particularly modular in that regard -- routing just comes under the
overall umbrella of "networking".

You could always cut out the bit from the network start scripts that
refer to routing and copy them into your own "routing" shell script.

> another person i talked to puts a route add in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file
> but for some reason that doesn't seem to be working very well....

What do you mean by "doesn't seem to be working very well"? Does route 
give you syntax errors?

> what's the best way to do routing????

...use FreeBSD.

   - andrew :-)

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