Enabling a second nic(eth1) disconnects eth0

[Mark Haney]

Ezra Taylor wrote:
> So, I should put the second gateway in a startup script?  Note, I was using
> the route command to add the second gateway.  Thanks for the heads up.
> 
>

You shouldn't need the second gateway unless you plan on doing some sort 
of weird failover.  The system should route any packets destined for 
that network out that interface without any problems.  I'd pull the 
gateway out of the config script, fire it up and test pinging the second 
network.


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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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