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Re: 2 e1000 interfaces not working together



udo waechter wrote:
>
> If only one Interface is up (no matter which one) I can not only reach
> the IP adress of that interface but also the other IP Adress which is
> not assigned to any computer in the subnet. It also works vice-versa.
> When both cards are down, none of the two IPs are reachable (via ping or
> ssh or so)

Well that would make sense. If the interfaces are down, how can
you get to them?

> Yes, that was also my thinking when we got the first machine with two
> interfaces. The solution that we have no is to assign each of the
> interfaces a different subdomain and then make all the clients for our
> co-workers usee one domain, and all computers which are used by students
> use the other sub-domain. Having this a route for each of the
> interfaces, things are ok again, or aren't they?
> As I understand it, traffic coming in on eth0 is recognized by the
> kernel as such and it knows that an answer has to be sent via eth0. or
> is this false?

Yup, this should work fine and is the easiest way of doing it if
you don't care about having multiple subnets.

> What exactly is psplit-routing?

These guys explain it so much better than I could in a short email:

http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html


Best regards,

-- 
George Borisov

DXSolutions Ltd

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