[SlugBug] Routing table question

[Bill Best]

hi all

to clarify my last message - as i have been contacted off-list about 
this - i am not so worried about the 169.254.*.* link local network 
address popping up in the routing table as that is not a show stopper.

unfortuantely i don't have an incorrect routing table to show the 
precise problem but i occasionally get a default gateway of 192.168.0.5 
showing (i don't know why).

occasionally i have been able to correct the routing table using this 
string of commands:

> route del default gw 192.168.0.5 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth1 && route del -net 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev eth1 && route add default gw 192.168.1.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0 && route

but it doesn't always work so i cannot set this as a cron job.  ideally 
i'd like to just copy a working route table into live and not have to 
think about it any more - can this be done?

many thanks and best regards

bill

Bill Best wrote:
> hi
> 
> i have a server that keeps 'losing' it's routing table configuration 
> profile.
> 
> the correct routing table is thus:
> 
>> [root at server root]# route
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    
>> Use Iface
>> 192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        
>> 0 eth0
>> 192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        
>> 0 eth1
>> default         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        
>> 0 eth0
> 
> 
> but occasionally these settings will become corrupted with an entry for 
> a network/default gateway with the link local address 169.254.0.0
> 
> what i would like to be able to do is to automatically update the 
> routing table using cron by loading up a text file - something like this 
> (but this doesn't work):
> 
> route < `cat route.txt`
> 
> where route.txt contains the desired routing table.
> 
> how can this be done - if at all?
> 
> many thanks and best regards
> 
> bill
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