FC1 multiple ethernet interface issue

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:43 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:35, David Benigni wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I don't want to bond the nics.  I need to have multiple ip addresses up
> > on this box, I want to bind one to eth0 and many to eth1.
> > 
> > >A little more information on your network design may be helpful.  And
> > >why do you want to manually bounce the interfaces?
> > 
> > I don't want too manually bounce the interfaces, in troubleshooting of
> > another issue I took down eth1 and noticed the behavior.  This might be
> > normal, but I'm curious if it should do this.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> 


Having looked at the /etc/sysconfig/network line with GATEWAY=w.x.y.z
and the fact that gateway is NOT in either of the ifcfg-eth[01] files, I
wonder if the entire problem can be fixed by simply moving the gateway
line from the network file to ifcfg-eth0 ??
It may be worth a try.

> It would be informative to see the netstat -rn data from the point that
> both interfaces are working correctly and then after you take one of the
> interfaces down.
> 
> I suspect you will have a single default gateway listed, the last column
> on the right should list which interface that default gateway will use.
> 
> If the default gateway is on the interface you took down then I would
> expect that route to go away.  However if it is on the other interface
> that remains up then I would expect that route to stay in the router
> table.  If it does go away then you should file a bug report because it
> sounds like the decision to remove routes is based on the IP addressing
> not the interface itself that went down.  
> 
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> Scot L. Harris
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