Hi, This is just a hypothetical case (now) to get my basics cleared. If I have 2 different service providers A and B which provides me bandwidth. They terminate their lines on their two separate routers. So, one end of router has a external ip and the end connected to a switch in my LAN has an internal ip. So, I have two gateways to reach the internet i.e. 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 Now, I want to keep a Linux box which will be connected to the switch and serve as gateway for windows clients. My aim is random routing and NOT source-based routing. So, will this work properly as random router, # route add -net default gw 192.168.0.1 # route add -net default gw 192.168.0.2 So, my routing table will carry entries like, 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 So, in theory this will do random routing between two ISPs. But a friend of mine says that this won't work and this is a classic "one-lung router". He says that for such a thing to work I have to give two ips from differnt subnets like e.g. (just fake ips for examples) # route add -net default gw 202.54.10.1 # route add -net default gw 61.11.191.11 And give two IPs from the respective subnets to my Linux box. Can someone please explain whether this and why my thinking may not work? Thanks a lot and bye. With warm regards, -Payal -- "Visit GNU/Linux Success Stories" http://payal.staticky.com Guest-Book Section Updated. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
