Rod & Frode,
Thanks for your help. (Rod I took the liberty of replying to
the list w/o without your email as your answer may be helpful
to other people.)
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Frode Haugsgjerd wrote:
see the manpage interfaces(5), specifically the up command.
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
...
up route add default gw 129.63.24.254
and:
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Rod Rodolico wrote:
> put the route command in /etc/network/interfaces. There is a command that executes
> arbitrary
> commands when ifup (or ifdown) is called. See following example from one of my
> machines.
>
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 67.66.8.41
> netmask 255.255.255.248
> network 67.66.8.120
> broadcast 67.66.8.127
> up /sbin/route add -host 67.66.8.41 eth0
> gateway 67.66.8.46
>
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > ################
> > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> >
> >> I have a server that has two network addresses.
> >> According the network of origin of the call could be accessible one or
> >> the other or both the address.
> >> How should i arrange in the DNS the two addresses so a client if does
> >> not found the first one, would try on the second ? (i do not need load
> >> balancing but just increase availability, 2nd channel is very slow ...)
> >> --
> >> Leonardo Boselli
> >> Nucleo Informatico e Telematico del Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
> >> Universita` di Firenze , V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
> >> tel +39 0554796431 cell +39 3488605348 fax +39 055495333
> >> http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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