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 -- László Béres Unix system engineer http://www.google.com/profiles/beres.laszlo -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list