Add Default Gateway in OVMM

User_TCQ1L

I am setting up a new environment with dedicated networks assigned for management, storage, and VM data. The network is stretched between two sites and in order to reach everything on the network I need to specify a gateway or route for each network but I cannot find where to add that setting into OVMM. If I need to add this info into /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-* then what entries can I add to set a gateway for each network that will not interfere with OVMM settings.

commenter-Oracle

Hi,

For an example, assume public networks for two machines:

1. Network A with a subnet <subnet-ip> and a default route <def-ip> on bond0
2. Network B with a subnet <subnet-ip> and a default route <def-ip> on bond1

The default route for the server should be the route from network A but after restarting the server it uses route from network B.

If you manually define defroute=no in ifcfg-bond1 and restart the network all works fine. But after next restart defroute=no has been deleted from ifcfg-bond1 and again you will have an issue with the default rout

Define Gateway in the ifcfg files and create a route file for the interfaces.

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond*

Add the below line.

GATEWAY= <Gateway-IP>

And also,

Create route file for the bond0 and bond1 under "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/" directory.

# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-bond0

Contents could be as below.

default via <gateway-ip> dev <Interface>

Replace the contents of <> with the actual values.

This is persistent to boot.

Regards,
Chandana