LKBEN11195: Howto add static routes on your ubuntu or debian system

Symptom

You need to define a static route for network connectivity

Cause

This is by design

Solution

To add a route you can just use the route add command. After rebooting the server this route will be gone. To add it permanently you can do the following:

create a file static-routes under /etc/network/if-up.d

The contents of the file should look like this:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/route add -net 172.23.41.0 netmaks 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.129.194
/sbin/route add -net 172.23.42.0 netmaks 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.129.194


Make shure the file can be executed as a script.

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

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