On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 12:27, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Paul, > Off hand I would assume that your kernel was not compiled with > multipath support. That's the only reason I can think of off hand why > those commands would fail. > > Now if that is compiled into your kernel, then it could be a problem > with you trying to use a IP that your machine does not have routes for. > > Ex. In order to use 206.253.195.209 and 64.133.254.73 > > if you type route -n enter, then you should get back something saying > > 206.253.195.0 dev eth* > 64.133.254.0 dev eth* > > If those entires do not appear in the routing table, then the machine > will not know how to reach the IP's you are using for your multipath > gateway. > > Also, FYI, > The article you are referring to is a good one. Mostly for the DNS > aspects. For the rest I would recommend the following. > http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/nano.txt > > Also there are some patches you will need to apply to your kernel in > order to make things work. Aside from the patches the linux router will > have to perform some sort of NAT. Here is the url for the pacthes http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/#routes > Then and only then will you be able to use both connections. I spent > several months, and many long days and nights going through what does > not work. I have found only one working solution. > > If you look through the LARTC archieves you will see my past posts. Feel > free to ask me anything, or simply post to the list and I as well as > others will reply. > > Good luck, hope that helps. > > > On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 12:14, Paul English wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > I'm new to the list and I've got a couple of questions. I'm > > following instructions here: > > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1824/sam0201h/0201h.htm > > for setting up a dual-connection (T1 & DSL) machine. My problems are: > > > > 1) ip route add default equalize doesn't work - I get: > > > > >ip route add default equalize > > RTNETLINK answers: No such device > > > > or if I do it properly: > > > > >ip route add default equalize nexthop via 206.253.195.209 dev eth0 > > nexthop via 64.133.254.73 dev eth2 > > RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument > > > > 2) Since that didn't work, I just made my default be via 64.133.254.73. > > Now I'm running a DNS master server on 206.253.195.209 and while it > > responds to regular dig just fine, it doesn't respond to zone transfer > > (dig axfr ). Or rather, I've been told by the guy running the slave server > > that for whatever reason it responds over the 64.133.254.73 address, > > although I'm not sure how he found that out - so zone transfers don't > > work. > > > > I'm aware that #2 _could_ be due to my ipchains configuration being > > incorrect, but I have poked some pretty big holes for the slave servers. > > > > 3) I see Policy Routing Using Linux by Matthew Marsh highly recommended on > > this site: http://defiant.coinet.com/iproute2/ > > Are there any books that people would recommend even more highly? I'm > > finding the command-reference only documentation on the net to be a bit > > less than I need. > > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > > > -- > Sincerely, > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > 439 Amber Way > Petaluma, Ca. 94952 > Phone 707.766.9509 > Fax 707.766.8989 > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > -- > Sincerely, > William L. Thomson Jr. > Support Group > Obsidian-Studios Inc. > 439 Amber Way > Petaluma, Ca. 94952 > Phone 707.766.9509 > Fax 707.766.8989 > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > -- Sincerely, William L. Thomson Jr. Support Group Obsidian-Studios Inc. 439 Amber Way Petaluma, Ca. 94952 Phone 707.766.9509 Fax 707.766.8989 http://www.obsidian-studios.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
