On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:33:29PM -0400, Lawrence MacIntyre wrote:
> Payal:
>
> What subnet are your users' machines on? Is there a third ethernet
> address on the linux machine where the user machines connect or are they
> connected to one of the two given ethernet interfaces (eth0 or eth1)?
All machines are 125.125.125.0/24. They are either connected t eth0 r
eth1.
HTH,
-Payal
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 22:33, Payal Rathod wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a simple question. I asked a friend about it but he was also not
> > clear. So, I thought of mailing the list.
> >
> > I have a linux box (RH 7.2) which will have 2 net cards. I have 2 types
> > of connections to that box. One RF at eth0 and 1 ISDN at eth1.
> > Now I told 10 people from the company to give eth1 as their default
> > gateway and the rest as eth0. Ok, so far? Now my understanding that with
> > the routing table below, all traffic coming to eth0 will be routed thru'
> > RF router and all traffic coming to eth1 will be routed through ISDN
> > router. Am I right? S, if ISDN fails only 10 people will suffer but the
> > rest can continue using RF line. Same case with RF line, if it fails the
> > 10 people can use ISDN without any glitch. This is no load balancing
> > network. Just a simple routing decision.
> >
> > I have,
> > route add default gw <ISDN router ip> dev eth1
> > route add default gw <RF router ip> dev eth0
> >
> >
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> > 125.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
> > 125.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
> > default 203.124.123.111 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
> > default 125.125.125.3 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
> > default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> >
> > Can anyone comment whether I am right in my analysis?
> >
> > My friend's comments are given below,
> >
> > | I still say that should be necessary. I believe you need to echo 0
> > | at some files found by /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/send_redirects.
> > | Otherwise devices won't route through your box, they'll be
> > | redirected straight to one of the routers (at random, as far as I
> > | know).
> >
> > With warm regards,
> > -Payal
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