Increase/Decrease route flushing time period in Solaris

April 24, 2008 · Filed Under Networking · Comment 


Just as we saw modifying the caching time for ARP entries in the ARP table here. We can modify the default time that a sun Solaris system can hold the routing entries.

The default time for which a dynamically learnt Route entry in the routing table is 20mins (1200000ms)

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How to change Default Gateway/Default Router in Sun Solaris

March 19, 2008 · Filed Under Networking · 4 Comments 

The Default Gateway or the Default Router is the IP address (IPv4) to which all the traffic to any target destination(s) which does not have a route in the Routing Table of the server will be forwarded.

This Default Gateway is maintained in the file

/etc/defaultrouter [IPv4 only]

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How to add a Static Route (persistent) in Sun Solaris

March 19, 2008 · Filed Under Networking, Solaris 10, Solaris 7, Solaris 8, Solaris 9 · 4 Comments 

To add a Static Route in Sun Solaris operating system, you can use the route command. This will dynamically update the Kernel IP Routing table. However, when a server is restarted, these routes will be lost. To prevent this from happening, add a startup script S76static-routes with all the route commands for the static route that needs to persist. This will ensure that the route gets added at boot time.

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