Static routing

Static routes provides additional routing information to your router.

 Easy

Static routes can be used to route connections to a specific host or address trough a specific interface, which may be a VPN-Connection.

All requests to dd-wrt.com should be routed through a given gateway.

• UCI
• /etc/config/network

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• Add static route section

uci add network route                                         
uci set network.@route[-1].interface=wan                      
uci set network.@route[-1].target=84.141.4.210                
uci set network.@route[-1].netmask=255.255.255.255            
uci set network.@route[-1].gateway=172.27.0.1                 

• Store changes

uci commit network

• Apply changes

/etc/init.d/network reload

Routes are defined in /etc/config/network

• Add new rule-section

config 'route'                                                                  
        option interface 'wan'                                                
        option target '83.141.4.210'                                          
        option netmask '255.255.255.255'                                      
        option gateway '172.27.0.1' 

• Restart service

/etc/init.d/network reload

You can check if the route has been applied successful by looking at the routing table with the route command

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         172.27.0.1      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1
84.141.4.210    172.27.0.1      255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 eth1
172.27.0.0      *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 br-lan

The field 'Destination' should match the target from the UCI configuration, Gateway matches Gateway, and the Iface should match the actual interface name.