Re: Problems with routing

[Mustafa Muhammad <mustafaa alhamdaani gmail com>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-01-17 at 17:44 +0300, Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to use NetworkManager with per interface routing and split
> > routing tables, when I use network I can put the route in a file
> > route-ifname with:
> > default via 192.168.222.1 table rt2
> >
> > and it works, when I switched to using NM, this no longer work, I
> > tried several times and found that I can use:
> > 192.168.222.0/0 via 192.168.222.1 table rt2
> >
> > but not "default", is this a bug or am I missing something?
>
> initscripts pass the lines from route-ifname directly to ip-route.
> NetworkManager does not support all this flexibility, especially it
> does not support specifying routing tables...
>
>
> But... recently the following got merged, so if you use NetworkManager
> from master, it might work for you:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=6d5e62a3877491299654de99809e156fd348c549
>
>
> The related bug on RHEL-7 is:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160013
>
>
>
> If you use an older NetworkManger, you might get around it by using a
> dispatcher script. Something like
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160013#c3

Thank you for answering, I use Fedora 21 server, so not from master,
but I'll use a script, happy to see this come to NM.
Thank you for your suggestion and for the links.

Regards
Mustafa Muhammad

> Thomas