Making Manual Routes Permanent Solaris 8 & Apache 1.3.27

When using <netstat -rn>, I notice that a number of routes are
automatically made by the machine's routing daemon, which I think is
in.routed. I need to add some manual routes, but of course they
disappear upon reboot. The man pages say that this is exactly what
will occur will in.routed is running; it says to stop it, make the
manual routes, then retart it but does not state how.

Any ideas how I can get some manual routes to stay put after reboot?

david.knight@bell.ca (Dave) writes:

>When using <netstat -rn>, I notice that a number of routes are
>automatically made by the machine's routing daemon, which I think is
>in.routed. I need to add some manual routes, but of course they
>disappear upon reboot. The man pages say that this is exactly what
>will occur will in.routed is running; it says to stop it, make the
>manual routes, then retart it but does not state how.

>Any ideas how I can get some manual routes to stay put after reboot?

You can add routes to "/etc/gateways", as documented in the man pages
for "routed". Or you can write a startup script to add them on
startup - I use "/etc/rc2.d/S70local-route" for that purpose.

If you are going to be running in.routed anyway, then "/etc/gateways"
is the best method. If your routes are all permanent and you don't
really need to run "in.routed", then add any default routes to
"/etc/defaultrouter", and add non-default routes in a startup
script.