two gateways

[hariiyer]

how do i put more than one gateways in our linux box (RH9)

[Roxoff]

Do you mean more than one network gateway? Does that mean you'll have one network card attached to your regular lan and two more connected to other lans?

All you need to do really is make sure each card uses a different subnet and are configured correctly and working, then build up your routing tables to send packets to whichever network you want based on their ip addresses.

Remember, you can only have one default gateway.

[winter]

you may want to look in to load ballancing

[hariiyer]

i will explain my setup

i have 2 lan cards in my linux box. 1 is for inernet and other is for
local. I have one external router (DAX) also.
The router is for lease line in which through i am accessing SAP
PORTAL. Now my problem is that i can't access both internet and SAP portal at
a time. Explain me how to access both the things

The private ip starts from 172.35.1.1 and my linux box ip is
172.35.1.9.

The ip address of the router is 172.35.1.254.

If i want to access SAP portal i will change the gateway (windows
system) to 172.35.1.254 and if i want to access internet i will change the
gateway to 172.35.1.9.

I hope u people understand my setup.

My distro is Whitbox

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[gtmtnbiker98]

You can only have one Default Gateway, that is why it is called default. If yo place two DG's on a machine, how in the world will it know were to send packets??? You will also receive an error when trying to add such an configuration, or at least you should. To cure your problem, place a persistent route in your routing table. I would place an entry similar to this one on the router with IP 172.35.1.9: (ex. route add /t <your desired ip address> mask 255.255.255.0 172.35.1.254). The route add command will vary depending upon the type of router you are using. What this setup does, it keeps the 172.35.1.9 as your default gateway and within this router, it will have a persistent route so that if it receives an IP call for the IP address within the routing table, it knows where to send it, in this cae, it will forward the IP packets to 172.35.1.254 and on out the door.

[winter]

You can only have one Default Gateway, that is why it is called default. If yo place two DG's on a machine, how in the world will it know were to send packets??? You will also receive an error when trying to add such an configuration, or at least you should. To cure your problem, place a persistent route in your routing table. I would place an entry similar to this one on the router with IP 172.35.1.9: (ex. route add /t <your desired ip address> mask 255.255.255.0 172.35.1.254). The route add command will vary depending upon the type of router you are using. What this setup does, it keeps the 172.35.1.9 as your default gateway and within this router, it will have a persistent route so that if it receives an IP call for the IP address within the routing table, it knows where to send it, in this cae, it will forward the IP packets to 172.35.1.254 and on out the door.

If your SAP portal has a limited range of addresses it connects to set up a router betweern both gate ways and set up the correct routing to send packets with the destination to the SAP router and all other ip packets to the internet look below at the diagram to get an idea.

SAP----------------\
                Router---------Local Lan
Net gateway--------/

This is a similar way, how I resolved a problem at work we have a net gateway and a idsn line to our supliers for software to send the orders

look at monowall which is easy to use firewall and router distribution of freebsd which runs on 486DX(old PCs) and upwards systems

[hariiyer]

can u explain me the steps how to to add routing table

[gtmtnbiker98]

There are several ways to solve this problem, I suggested the easiest. Winter's method is the preferred method in a workplace environment.

[winter]

There are several ways to solve this problem, I suggested the easiest. Winter's method is the preferred method in a workplace environment.

apart from the one at my place is set up like so.

IDSN router----------------------\
                                  \
Internet -------------firewall----Monowall----------Lan
                     Cisco PIX    As a router