> -----Original Message----- > From: Craig White [mailto:craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 3:07 PM > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: How to use Route?? > > > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:09, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > 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. So.. it would know which NIC to route it to? 192.168.0 will go through eth2 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. since one is company network and the other is internet,(wifi) they cannot > > 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 > > -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
