Thursday, June 08, 2006

F5 Static routing

On F5 LinkControler (Release 4.5) you can define static routes in the /config/static-routes files. Rights 755 needed on the file.

Before adding static routes you need to validate the update_cached_route variable, with the following command :

bigpipe global update_cached_route enable

To add a route in the file, you need to add a line per route in the following format :

10.0.0.0/16 192.168.1.1
Ex : echo '10.0.0.0/16 192.168.1.1' > /config/static-routes

After a change in the static-routes file a reload of the file are needed wth the bigstart reinit static-routes command.