Summary : Retaining static routes after a reboot

Arvinder Paul (arvinder@ibd.investors.com)
Mon, 29 Dec 1997 14:15:11 -0800

Thanks to all those who replied. Sorry for the delay in posting the summary.
It's that time of the year again.

The original question was

> I am defining static routes in a sparc machine running Solaris 2.5.1
> by using the route add command.
> Everything works fine but when I reboot the machine I lose the static
> route
> that I created.
> Anybody know the best way to retain the static routes thru reboots.
>

The response is pretty much unanimous.

Put the route add entries in the rc files in a script form.
Every time the system initializes the route add commands will get executed.

Thanx

Arvinder
Sys Admin.