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Special Forums IP Networking When to use static route on server? Post 302332108 by gratuitous_arp on Wednesday 8th of July 2009 07:32:10 AM
Old 07-08-2009
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When do we really need to add a static route on the server?
Your server needs to have a valid route back to a client whenever you want communication to occur between the two devices.

Your servers and hosts have routing tables which tell them where to send packets that *they* create, just like gateway devices use routing tables to forward other devices' traffic (and also for traffic the gateways create themselves). A gateway could forward a packet just fine, but if your server does not have a valid route, your server will never send the packet to the gateway in the first place. Type "ip route" at the command line to see the kernel IP routing table.

The most common static route you'll have on a server or a client is the default route. A default route tells a host to send all packets that do not match any other routes to a particular destination. This saves you from setting static routes to every host or network you want your server to be able to reply to; it covers everything in one route table entry. To set a default route, you can use the command:

ip route add default dev <interface> via <next hop IP address>
 

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DUMP_SOCKDFR(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   DUMP_SOCKDFR(8)

NAME
dump_sockdfr - Display contents of frozen route file for SOCKS server SYNOPSIS
dump_sockdfr [infile] DESCRIPTION
dump_sockdfr reads in a frozen route file for the SOCKS server and produces a listing of its contents on the standard output. The argument is optional; if omitted, /etc/sockd.fr is assumed. The frozen route file is produced by make_sockdfr and is essentially the memory image of the parsed route file. Using the frozen route file can reduce the start-up delay of the SOCKS server program since it no longer has to parse the file contents. When the SOCKS server starts, it always looks for the frozen route file /etc/sockd.fr first. If that file is not found, it then tries to use the plain-text route file /etc/sockd.route. If you use frozen route file, you must remember to run make_sockdfr every time after you modify the plain-text file or the SOCKS server will continue to use the frozen version of a previous route file. FILES
/etc/sockd.fr, /etc/sockd.route SEE ALSO
make_sockdfr(8), sockd.fr(5), sockd.route(5) AUTHOR
Ying-Da Lee, yingda@esd.sgi.com or yingda@best.com May 6, 1996 DUMP_SOCKDFR(8)
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