Re: IP aliassing and routing

[Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org>]

First, remove the gateway statements from the ethx:0 files...the alias 
files need very little actual info...the interface name, the ip address, 
and whether or not to start the at boot.

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Raymond van den Houwen wrote:

> I'm trying to get 2 IP adresses on 2 different NIC's with IP aliassing. 
> These NIC's have as default gateway the IP adress '62.150.201.1'.
> The problem is that my routing table contains 3 default gateways & I cannot 
> ping ifcfg-eth1. I cannot find a document on the internet in which is 
> explained where you must config your default gatway and where not in the 
> ifcfg-eth files.
> 
> My config files are as follows:
> 
> [root foxserver network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0
> DEVICE='eth0'
> BOOTPROTO='none'
> ONBOOT='yes'
> IPADDR='62.150.201.110'
> GATEWAY='62.150.201.1'
> TYPE='Ethernet'
> USERCTL='no'
> NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
> NETWORK='62.150.201.0'
> BROADCAST='62.150.201.255'
> 
> [root foxserver network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0:0
> DEVICE='eth0:0'
> BOOTPROTO='none'
> ONBOOT='yes'
> IPADDR='62.150.201.140'
> GATEWAY='62.150.201.1'
> TYPE='Ethernet'
> USERCTL='no'
> NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
> NETWORK='62.150.201.0'
> BROADCAST='62.150.201.255'
> 
> [root foxserver network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth1
> DEVICE=eth1
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=none
> IPADDR=62.150.201.111
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> GATEWAY=62.150.201.1
> 
> [root foxserver network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth1:0
> DEVICE='eth1:0'
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=none
> IPADDR=62.150.201.112
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> BROADCAST= 62.150.201.255
> GATEWAY=62.150.201.1
> TYPE='Ethernet'
> 
> De routing tabel:
> 
> [root foxserver network-scripts]# route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
> Iface
> 62.150.201.0   *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
> 62.150.201.0   *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
> 127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> default         62.150.201.1   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
> default         62.150.201.1   0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth1
> default         62.150.201.1   0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0
> 
> 
> What is going wrong here ? 3 default gateways isn't OK I think. And why 
> can't I ping ifcfg-eth1 62.150.201.111 ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Raymond
> 
> 
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