On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:23:58AM -0700, Peter Nome wrote: *snip* > My situation is that I have two subnets, each of which have their own DSL gateway, > and I'd > like the subnet machines (selectively) to be able to talk to each other and to have > the other > DSL router as a fallback when it turns out that one of the ISPs is running Windows > and gets > taken out by viruses.
Failing over routes is not something I've played with; I think you'll need iproute, or maybe even some user-space software to keep track. Maybe someone else knows better. *snip* > I realize this question sounds silly, since I should just put it in interfaces in > the same way I > put the primary address and gateway, like this: > > iface eth0:1 inet static > address 192.168.1.71 > gateway 192.168.1.1 > > But it doesn't do the trick -- this is disregarded. If I enter it as above from > bash, it always works. Did you include the line "auto eth0:1" before this, or try running "ifup eth0:1" ? AIUI you'll need the auto flag to have an interface brought up at boot time. Otherwise I think this looks okay... HTH, - Keegan
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