Haiku Re: [buug] gateway

[Bill Honeycutt]

Or, the 2-7-5  variant...

pausing
halfway down the list
first default gateway


Bob Read wrote:

>Difficult concepts are best explained via 15th century
>Japanese prose:
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>Two Default Gateways
>Lookup finds only first match
>Other route unused
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>--- Jon McClintock <jammer at weak.org> wrote:
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>>On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:25:12AM -0700, johnd
>>wrote:
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>>>Is it ok to define two default gateways?
>>>
>>>to me be name 'default gateway' implies one, but I
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>>>
>>have a box that
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>>>has a route to a other lan and needs a route to
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>>the internet
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>>>so I just added another default gateway and
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>>everything works great
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>>>just want to make sure this is not a problem
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>>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:
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>> 
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>http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/ipnetworking/linuxipnetworking.html
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>>Skimming past the bits about the actual Linux
>>implementation, and
>>focusing on the IP routing bits.
>>
>>-Jon
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