Try putting your static route in interfaces, in the eth0 section with an up, like
iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.71.3/24 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add default gw 192.168.71.1 I think post-up might be too late, maybe there's a pre-up. On 9/24/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Sunday 24 September 2017 16:20:31 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> On 24/09/17 19:45, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>> I wouldn't put the manual route command in rc.local, I'd put it in >> >>> the network interface definition as in >> >>> >> >>> allow-hotplug eth0 >> >>> iface eth0 inet static >> >>> address 172.27.200.5/24 >> >>> post-up route add default gw 172.27.200.1 dev eth0 metric 0 >> >>> pre-down route del default gw 172.27.200.1 dev eth0 >> >> >> >> Printed to carry out to it, rc.local didn't work at all. I'll try >> >> this >> > >> > next >> > >> >> Thanks. >> > >> > Didn't work, with my addresses, it gave me an empty route -n report. >> > Back to doing it by hand after a reboot. >> > Now trying to get X11 started. X server not in path. :( >> >> There's something badly wrong there. Run ifconfig -a to check that >> your interfaces are named as expected. > rock64@rock64:~$ sudo -i > [sudo] password for rock64: > root@rock64:~# ifconfig -a > eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.71.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast > 192.168.71.255 > inet6 fe80::3c1b:98ff:fe17:e38c prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> > ether 3e:1b:98:17:e3:8c txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 46905 bytes 66972164 (63.8 MiB) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 22393 bytes 1567772 (1.4 MiB) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > device interrupt 39 > > lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> > loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback) > RX packets 3 bytes 232 (232.0 B) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 3 bytes 232 (232.0 B) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > > Thanks Mark. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach