[CentOS] routing multiple network cards on a single subnet

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Wed Jan 20 18:57:22 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 11:48 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Why did you want this arrangement in the first place?  IP routes are 
> normally asymmetrical by design (it's a feature).  I thought you said 
> you already had a private address on eth0.  Why do you need to 
> distinguish between eth1/eth2 on the same subnet on the public side?

This is a server with limited upload bandwidth.  By having two outbound
connections, I can use a round robin dns entry to share the load between
the two connections and increase my capacity.
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