NetworkManager and special routing [not solved]

[Alan Evans]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Alan Evans <ame.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to get NetworkManager to configure a special route to
> a particular host while still getting the rest from DHCP as it always
> does?
>
> On my old desktop (without NetworkManager), I just used
> system-config-network and added the rule on the Route tab for the
> connection. Now, Fedora9, I do that and NetworkManager stops managing
> the connection. Ugh.
>
> If NetworkManager is the way of the future, then I really want to
> adopt it. But I really can't have packets to my own server travelling
> through our default gateway, out over the wide internet through
> servers hundreds of miles from here, just to be routed back into the
> server room next door to my office.
>
> Can this be done? Or is it time to give up (again) on NetworkManager
> and fall back to the static configurations which, while bothersome, at
> least work?

Thanks for all the help from Phil Meyer. I'd like to get the new
method working, but unfortunately I don't have time to dink with it an
longer. *sigh*

I simply disabled NetworkManager, enabled the classic network service,
and configured my static route from the convenient GUI. Done.

Hopefully, NM will allow this simple configuration explicitly in the
future, rather than requiring expert intervention and editing of
config files (some of which don't exist in the install and must be
created from scratch!) still coming to no solution.

Later. Thanks again...