ip static route, make changes permanent/persistent upon reboot

Question

CentOS 5, i manually added a static route to an ip to use the second network interface like so:

ip route add 123.456.7.89/32 via 192.168.10.101 dev eth1

is there a way to make this change be persistent upon reboot without adding it to startup script /etc/rc.d/rc.local ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes. Add the line

123.456.7.89/32 via 192.168.10.101 dev eth1

to /etc/sysconfig/netowrk-scripts/route-eth1 as shown here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s1-networkscripts-static-routes.html.

BTW, this was the very first hit from googling “CentOS route”