I ran into a problem and I thought you might be interested in that patch. My situation is this: I have two NICs plus a wireless network card that I'm trying to configure together so that my box can act as a wireless access point when the PCMCIA card is inserted.
Under normal conditions when you insert the pcmcia card into a box that already has one present you get a routing table with two entries for default network gateways. Something like this: Destination Gateway Genmask 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 <<--This is a Network Card 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 <<--This is a PCMCIA card I have changed to code in /etc/pcmcia/network script to address this as follows: At approximately line 125 there is: test "$GATEWAY" && /sbin/route add default gw $GATEWAY metric 1 I have modified that into two lines as follows: test "$GATEWAY" && test "$NETWORK" $$ /sbin/route add $NETWORK gw $GATEWAY metric 2 test "$GATEWAY" && test ! "$NETWORK" $$ /sbin/route add default gw $GATEWAY metric 2 I personally changed the metric from 1 to 2 for not really good reason as nothing I have uses metrics anyway. But considering that I use a FastEthernet connection on everything and my Wireless card is a 2MB, it made sense to raise the metric value somewhat. That's arbitrary in my opinion. In any event. I would appreciate it if someone could look this over and let me know if I'm sane on this change. I downloaded the pcmcia version this morning (version .25?) so I think it is applicable. I have found this problem/fix on Slackware 7.1, Debian/stable, and Debian/testing. This patch allows me to use this box as a Wireless access point or Wireless gateway/firewall. Thanks! Tom Allison Michael Bauer wrote: > > Hi TOM > > > If my card is 192.168.2.1 my typical routing ends up where > > everything is routed through this interface. > > I want to be selective down to 192.168.2.0/24 only and leave the > > default routing to another interface. > > The problem is that I want to have two routing defaults: > > 192.168.2.0/24 goes to 192.168.2.1 > > everything else goes to 192.168.0.1 > > in my /etc/pcmcia/network.opts I got the line GATEWAY="192.168.18.1" > AsFarAsIKnow this is the solution to your problem. comment that line or > set your gateway in. > > mihi > -- > Good programmers know what to write, Great programmers know what to > rewrite > Eric S. > Raymond > PGP/GPG key @ http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a9900470/mihi.asc > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
