[Sunhelp] Default router

[Marko, Simon]

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Khoury [mailto:pkhoury at mindspring.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 1999 06:27 am
To: Sunhelp List
Subject: [Sunhelp] Default router


How can one change the defaultrouter file in Solaris
and have the changes take effect immediately?
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Hi Paul,
To change the default route on the fly, use the "route" command which
changes the kernel routing table.
This is how the default route is set in one of the /etc/rc* files (ie. by
reading /etc/defaultrouter)

as root:"route add default X.X.X.X" where X.X.X.X is the new router IP
Address

You can check this afterwards by using "netstat -r" which will show you the
kernel routing table (note this can take some time to produce output, but be
patient!)

Hope this makes sense to you.

Simon Marko
TELSTRA Internetworking Solutions
Perth Australia