> (personally I prefer the netstat -rn output, I guess that makes me old > school. :) ) trust me, I'm the same way. I still can't get my fingers to type dig instead of nslookup. > At this point the problem is not at the point you shutdown eth1. It is > when you bring eth1 up and all your routes get pushed out that > interface. It is that point that the system must be looking at the > addressing you are using and says the new interface has the same subnet > as the old one so all traffic can go this way. Depending on the actual > IP address on the interface it may decide that based on the highest or > lowest IP address. Not sure about that but that appears to be what is > happening. > So if you think this has been working with the two interfaces splitting > traffic, it probably has not. Look at the packet stats ifconfig gives > you for each interface. Setup some file transfers or something to each > IP address for testing. I suspect you will see all outbound traffic on > eth1 and nothing on eth0, even for local LAN traffic. I see what you are saying. So, I wonder if using GATEWAYDEV=eth0 buys me anything when tearing down eth1. In the past I have had a server with two nics (different subnets) and split traffic between both. Each had a different default gw though. This example is more insteresting because the default gw are the same. Thanks, Dave
