I have the following network layout: +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------+ | | | | | INTERNET |----------------| EXTBOX | | | | | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------+ | | | | | | | | | | |WAN |WAN +-------------------+ +-----------------------+ +------------------+ | |LAN eth1| |eth2 LAN| | | ROUTER1 |-------------------------------------------------| MIDBOX |------------------------------------------------| ROUTER2 | | |192.168.1.254 192.168.1.1| |192.168.2.1 192.168.2.254| | +-------------------+ +----------------------+ +------------------+ eth0|192.168.0.1 | | | +-----------------+ | | | SWITCH | | | +------------------+ | | eth0|192.168.0.101 +--------------------+ | | | INTBOX | | | +--------------------+ with the following network configuration: ROUTER1 (asus rtn66u router): - knows about 192.168.0.0 network via 192.168.1.1 - ssh tcp 22 on WAN redirected to 192.168.1.1 ROUTER2 (asus rtac3200 router): - knows about 192.168.0.0 network via 192.168.2.1 - ssh tcp 22 on WAN forwarded to 192.168.2.1 MIDBOX: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 allow-hotplug eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.254 <<<===== default gateway (router1) ### static routing ### #post-up route add -net 10.101.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.254 #pre-down route del -net 10.101.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.254 echo 1 rtnac3200 >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables allow-hotplug eth2 iface eth2 inet static address 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ### static routing ### post-up ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth2 src 192.168.2.1 table rtnac3200 post-up ip route add default via 192.168.2.254 dev eth2 table rtnac3200 <<<<===== secondary gateway (router2) post-up ip rule add from 192.168.2.1/32 table rtnac3200 post-up ip rule add to 192.168.2.1/32 table rtnac3200 INTBOX: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 ########## # QUESTION # ########## I've created the 'rtnac3200' table so that I can ssh into MIDBOX from EXTBOX no matter what router I use. The problem I have now is that from INTBOX I get no replies when I ping 192.168.2.1 (any other interface does reply though) How should I modify my configuration to solve this problem? PS: hopefully I'm posting to question to the right mailing list.-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lartc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html