On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:09, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scot L. Harris [mailto:webid@xxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:21 PM > > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: How to use Route?? > > > > > > You only get one default gateway per system. If you have certain > > networks that you want to get to through specific interfaces you add > > additional static routes for those networks. > > > > I have 2 network cards. One is a wifi eth1 and another's LAN eth0. > Both of these have different ip addresses and I just need them to > be routed differently. > > eg: eth1 10.0.0.1 gw 10.0.0.10 <-company lan > eth2 192.168.0.1 gw 192.168.0.10 <- wifi/internet > > So.. in essence I would lke to have connections that start with 192.x to go > through eth2 and 10.x to eth1 ---- I'll cut it off right there. if you have two interfaces # ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.1 subnet mast 255.255.255.0 eth2 192.168.0.1 subnetmask 255.255.255.0 and you want to reach hosts on either the 192.168.0 network or the 10.0.0 network, routing is handled automatically. You default gateway would have to be reachable by either one of those devices as determined by the ip address and the subnet mask. The reason to add static routes is if you want to reach networks that are not on either of these two networks nor reachable through your default gateway... for example, company also has a remote office in Timbuktu which has a network of 192.168.1.0 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 - this network is already tied into your existing network through a vpn/router scheme and you want to reach the server at 192.168.1.5 Since 192.168.1.5 isn't reachable with either of your network/subnet mask configurations, any attempts to ping/contact 192.168.1.5 will go out to your default gateway (that's why it's a default gateway). So to route your packets for 192.168.1.0 network through the company router, you would need to know that ip address (i.e. 192.168.0.254) and THEN you would have enough info to set up a static route... route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.254 dev eth2 HTH Craig -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
