Getting a machine to route without reboot

From: Andreas Höschler (ahoesch@smartsoft.de)
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 09:02:04 EST


Dear managers,

I am setting up a new machine and have just performed the standard
steps for setting up routing:

        rm /etc/defaultrouter
        route add default 212.222.154.113
          /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forwarding 1
        

   Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ ---------
212.222.154.112 212.222.154.116 U 1 3 bge2
192.168.128.0 192.168.128.1 U 1 2 bge1
192.168.1.0 192.168.1.201 U 1 2 bge0
224.0.0.0 192.168.1.201 U 1 0 bge0
default 212.222.154.113 UG 1 37
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 119 lo0

I am almost sure routing will work after the next reboot with this
script

#!/bin/sh
                                case "$1" in
                                    start)
                                      echo "Adding default route..."
                                      route add default 212.222.154.113
                                      /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip
ip_forwarding 1
                                      ;;

                                    stop)
                                      echo "Removing default route..."
                                      route delete default
212.222.154.113
                                      ;;
                                    *)
                                      echo "Usage: $0 (start|stop)" >&2
                                      exit 1
                                      ;;
                                 esac
                                 exit 0

in place and activated with ln -s /etc/init.d/defaultrouting
/etc/rc2.d/S69defaultrouting. I am wondering whether I can get routing
to work without rebooting the machine. Any ideas what I am missing?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

   Andreas
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