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Sco Unix - Add a permanent route

I using an old version SCO Unix and would like to create a route that will not disappear after a reboot.
Is there a 'permanent' flag I can use?
(i.e. 192.168.100.0 192.168.0.1 -p)

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you need to add

route add 192.168.100.0 192.168.0.1

to one of the startup scripts in /etc/rc3.d


or run

scoadmin

and go to network setup
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Great, I will give that a shot.
Along the same lines... how can I check the gateway?
I suspect the gateway has not been set as the proper route is already configed on the gateway.

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what do you mean by "check" the gateway

If you want to see the routes, use
   netstat -rn
if you mean the 'defaultrouter',  you should see the entry "default" in output from
   netstat -rn
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Ok, so there's no 'default gateway' then... only routes?
After doing a 'netstat -rn', I see no 'default'... only the various routers to other subnets.

Thanks!
To set the default router, use
    route add default 192.168.0.1
Change the IP address to that of your router.
Just a small thing:

Most SCO versions do not have an /etc/init.d directory and the default run level is 2 so the startup file would go into /etc/rc2.d

There is a file /etc/default/tcp that has a line for the gateway (sample attached)  If you put the gateway into this file you don't need any startup scripts.  You would use the startup script to add non-default routes however.

# cat /etc/default/tcp


#      @(#)tcp.dfl,v 6.4 1994/10/22 14:49:58 prem Exp - STREAMware TCP/IP  sourc
e
#
# Copyrighted as an unpublished work.
# (c) Copyright 1987-1994 Legent Corporation
# All rights reserved.
#
#      SCCS IDENTIFICATION
#
# DEFAULT TCP parameters
#
# These parameters are read by the TCP startup script as
# default values.
#
# The ROUTER_DAEMON keyword can be used to start your choice of router daemon.
# For example, to use routed, set ROUTER_DAEMON=/etc/routed. You can also
# pass argument to the daemon, using the ROUTER_DAEMON_ARGS keyword. Note
# that is you set ROUTER_DAEMON, it must point to an executable file, which
# is executed by /etc/tcp. Usually, if you set a default GATEWAY, you do not
# set a routing daemon.
#
 
DOMAIN=whoamiwhoareyou.com
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
BROADCAST=192.168.10.255
ROUTER_DAEMON=
ROUTER_DAEMON_ARGS=
GATEWAY=192.168.10.5
DFLTMETRIC=

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Look here for 5.0.6 (about halfway down the page):
http://www.sco.com/support/docs/openserver/506/latenews.html
Clarification:

Openserver 6 does have /etc/init.d
Up to 5.0.7 it does not (5.0.7 is the latest that I have access to).

uname -a to see the level.
If you create a file in /etc/init.d you must link it to /etc/rc2.d or /etc/rc3.d
to get executed:
  ln  /etc/init.d/myscript  /etc/rc2.d/S45myscript
Change the number (75) and the script's name according to your setup.