[ale] Multiple ethernet cards on same network

[Larry Grenevitch]

You want to look for articles on bridging.  It is supported as part of SuSE 
Linux's personal firewall and is just a switch in the config file you turn on 
to allow packets to same class.  Otherwise it appears to be pretty 
complicated.

On Thursday 20 March 2003 02:22 pm, ale at jeffx.com wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have two network interfaces (eth0 and eth1)  both connected to the same
> network.  All outbound connections go through eth1 and I would like to get
> them to go through eth0 by default.  Leaving eth1 open for backup.
>
> Currently I execute the command "route add -net 172.17.1.0 netmask
> 255.255.255.0 dev eth0" and that seems to work fine (I have added it to my
> local boot script for the time being).  If I try to add it to static-routes
> it does not take on reboot.
>
> I am guessing there is a better way to do this?  I am using Red Hat 8.0.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
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