Linux Routing Configuration

External

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Networking_Guide/sec-Using_the_Command_Line_Interface.html#sec-Configuring_Static_Routes_in_ifcfg_files

Internal

• Routing

Adding Multicast Routing to a Specific Network Interface

ip route add 224.0.0.0/4 dev <device-name>

More details about ip can be found here

ip

The equivalent "route" command is:

route add 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev <device-name>

Routing Configuration that Survives Reboot

Add the static routing configuration to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-<device-name>:

...
# default multicast route
224.0.0.0/4 via 172.20.1.12

where "172.20.1.12" is the IP address of the interface we want to route the multicast traffic over. It is sufficient to add static routing configuration only to the file route-* corresponding to the interface that will service the route.

After reboot, we'll get this:

[eap@app01 ~]$ ip route
...
224.0.0.0/4 via 172.20.1.12 dev eth1