Re: two nic same server

[Frode Haugsgjerd <froh@froh.dyndns.org>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 07:57:23AM -0400, Dan MacNeil wrote:
> 
> I can't answer you question for sure, but have a vaguely similar
> question about two network cards in the same server.
> 
> We have (2) nics in our main server. One faces our internal network runs
> samba & the like, the other faces the outside world and runs apache and
> the like.
> 
> The internal network has a separate NAT gateway on a completely different
> machine.
> 
> To get this setup to work we needed a:
> 
> 	route add default gw 129.63.24.254
> 
> ...which is in /etc/init.d/rc.local
> 
> Putting the gateway in /etc/network/interfaces didn't work.
> 
> When we reboot, everything is fine. When people do a ifup eth1, things
> don't work unless they also do a rc.local People have a habit of
> forgetting the rc.local bit...
> 
> We could easily wrap ifup with something like:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # this ifup is in path before /sbin/ifup
> 
> route add default gw 129.63.24.254
> /sbin/ifup $1
> 
> ...but I am concerned that we will then forget this information.
> 
> 1) In general does it make some to avoid hiding too config details?
> 2) Is there a better way to do this than in rc.local?
> 
> 

see the manpage interfaces(5), specifically the up command.

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
	...
	up route add default gw 129.63.24.254

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Frode Haugsgjerd
Norway