Haiku Re: [buug] gateway

Bob Read unixjavabob at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 22 14:46:46 PDT 2003


Difficult concepts are best explained via 15th century
Japanese prose:

Two Default Gateways
Lookup finds only first match
Other route unused



--- Jon McClintock <jammer at weak.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:25:12AM -0700, johnd
> wrote:
> > Is it ok to define two default gateways?
> > 
> > to me be name 'default gateway' implies one, but I
> have a box that
> > has a route to a other lan and needs a route to
> the internet
> > 
> > so I just added another default gateway and
> everything works great
> > 
> > just want to make sure this is not a problem
> 
> While it may work, it doesn't really makes sense.
> Your default gateway
> should be the one that is used to connect to
> networks that aren't
> explicitly specified in your routing table. 
> 
> So, in your routing table, you should have two
> entries, one specifying
> the gateway for the local network, and a second
> specifying the default
> route (the gateway to the Internet).
> 
> Take a look at:
> 
>  
>
http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/ipnetworking/linuxipnetworking.html
> 
> Skimming past the bits about the actual Linux
> implementation, and
> focusing on the IP routing bits.
> 
> -Jon
> 
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