nick wrote: > > (Sorry if this question is too easy for kernel people :) > > I have a host running as a web server. It has two ethernet interfaces, > each having a valid public IP address. These two IP addresses are NOT on > the same subnet, but I believe they are connected to the same router > from my ISP (ARP reveals that eth0's gateway and eth1's gateway have the > same MAC address). I want people to be able to access my site through > both IP addresses. My question is how to setup the routing table. If the > routing table says "use eth0's gateway as default gateway", eth1 becomes > "unaccessible" to people. Here is my speculation of what happened: a > client tries to establish a tcp connection to eth1's ip, my host > receives the request, and sends out a packet indicating ACK(or > whatsoever), but this packet has the source address of eth0's ip, and > when client gets this packet, client is confused, and tcp connection was > never successfully established. What should I do? > > And a related question, is it possible to setup the routing policy as > this: "packets coming in from eth0 should be 'responded' back via eth0; > packets coming in from eth1 should be 'responded' back via eth1" > > I'm running a linux 2.4.18 kernel with full support for ip route2 and > iptables. > Greately appreciate any suggestion/clue/correcton! > -nick > See the Howto at the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control site, http://www.lartc.org. Select the box labeled "Dive in!". Ralph - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
