Two Network Cards With Different Settings For Internet Access (Newbie)

[deerk]

I have two networks eth0 and eth 1 connected on a server, both are using different external IP address, gateway, DNS, Netmask.

I can reboot my system and sometimes eth1 is accessible from SSH, and other times eth0 is accessible. Then sometimes eth1 & eth0 will just stop being pingable alltogether


Please help i'm totally new to linux

[Irithori]

hi and welcome

You are most likely facing a routing issue.
This document might help you to implement split access and (potentially) load balancing over the two ISPs.
Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO

[msohail]

hi and welcome

You are most likely facing a routing issue.
This document might help you to implement split access and (potentially) load balancing over the two ISPs.
Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO

Hi Deerk

I second Irithori. Check the gateway of each ethernet and set see to it that they are not the same for both Ethernets. For example 192.168.0.1 for eth0 and 192.168.1.1 for eth1. Of course you will have to connect each Ethernet to its respective router and cannot use one router for different gateway unless you have a VLAN setup.

Jazak Allah
Sohail

[Lazydog]

My question would be does the same ip address come up on the same card every time after reboot? What you are seeing could be a case where the system changes the interface on reboot, which I have seen before. I fixed this by adding the MAC Address of the card to the config file I wanted it to boot with.

[deerk]

Thanks a lot..

[Lazydog]

So has your problem been fixed? If so could you post here what you did so the next user searching might find the answer. Thnx