Adding and Troubleshooting Static Routes on Red Hat based Linux Distributions

1 · Benjamin Cane · May 12, 2013, 12:44 a.m.
Adding static routes in Linux can be troublesome, but also absolutely necessary depending on your network configuration. I call static routes troublesome because they can often be the cause of long troubleshooting sessions wondering why one server can't connect to another. This is especially true when dealing with teams that may not fully understand or know the remote servers IP configuration. The Default Route Linux, like any other OS has a routing table that determines what is the next hop for...