From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ru-RU; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021022 Description of problem: Static routes can't be set in /etc/sysconfig/static-routes if following the initscripts' documentation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read the /usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.95/sysconfig.txt file 2. Set a static route on a particular network interface in /etc/sysconfig/static-routes 3. service network restart 4. netstat -nr Actual Results: No static route is set on a particular interface mentioned in static-routes as 'eth1 net 172.16.6.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.1 eth1' or 'eth1 net 172.16.6.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.1'. Expected Results: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 172.16.6.0 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 UG 40 0 0 eth1 Additional info: Documentation should be fixed since many people read it at first and then configure their network settings. Didn't find any mention about /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-<DEV> in sysconfig.txt.
Documentation stuff fixed in the rawhide initscripts, along with some functionality.