Elizabeth Barham said: > "nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org> writes: > >> david hong said: > So, if there is a host 192.168.0.11, and David attempts to ping it, the > packet may *not* go out eth1 (in this example)? it might go out eth1, I am not certain. but 192.168.0.11 is a locally connected system which doesn't require a gateway to access. the problem comes into play when your trying to route through the gateway on the 2nd interface in my experience. nate