Re: setup static route for a hostname

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Charan <charan314@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We usually setup static routes using IP where this IP is destination IP. Can
we also give the destination hostname while configuring route?

Of course:

[root@nb287 ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
192.168.122.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 virbr0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0
[root@nb287 ~]# route del default
[root@nb287 ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
192.168.122.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 virbr0
[root@nb287 ~]# route add default gw wlan-gateway
[root@nb287 ~]# grep wlan-gateway /etc/hosts
192.168.1.1 wlan-gateway
[root@nb287 ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0
192.168.122.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 virbr0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0

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