Hi Les,
I do have another gateway at 10.0.254.1, it is a Linksys router that all
the provate stuff plugs into, and that Linksys plugs directly into our modem.
You can only have one 'default' gateway. Keep the one pointed to the internet router. Make a file named /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth1 to hold the route(s) handled by the other interface. Something like: 10.0.0.0/8 via 10.0.254.1 should work if you want the whole private class A space to go that way. The ifup/ifdown scripts will add/remove the routes matching the interfaces.
So this is a static route. I trued what you suggested and the eth1 interface stalls to come up. It just wont. All ssh sessions get disconnected and everything stops working
I did:
[root@meowbox network-scripts]# cat route-eth1 10.0.0.0/8 via 10.0.254.1
I found: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s1-networkscripts-sta...
So I changed it to:
[root@meowbox network-scripts]# cat route-eth1 10.0.0.0/8 via 10.0.254.1 dev eth1
and commented out the GATEWAY= line in ifcfg-eht1 and the interface comes up.
Testing ssh and the websites, they seem to be fine.
Thank you for this lesson.
Jason