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Nice thing about the smitty mkroute is that if you do it that way the route wil survive a reboot. If you just use the "route add" command....you will loose the route on reboot.
Correct. The reason being that (persistent) routing information is stored in the ODM. Using a
chdev like smitty does changes the ODM as well as the actual configuration, while
route add only changes the configuration but not the ODM. At reboot the ODM is read to create a configuration, which is why the
route commands effects don't survive reboots.
Notice that some admins who don't know this end up putting "route add"-commands in
rc.net and this will of course override any changes in the ODM, so watch out for this sort of problems if you change anything.
I hope this helps.
bakunin