Scott Silva wrote: >> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use >> Iface >> 212.47.23.188 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.252 U 0 0 >> 0 eth0 >> 192.168.38.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 >> 0 eth1 >> 192.168.36.0 192.168.38.254 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 >> 0 eth1 >> 192.168.37.0 192.168.38.253 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 >> 0 eth1 >> 0.0.0.0 212.47.23.189 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 >> 0 eth0 >> >> David Hrbáč > Static routes work fine, but having 2 default routes will not be easy > in linux. You can't be sure that packets can find there way back to > their origin. > Yours seems to work for you, but I bet it is because the packets are > luckily getting back. It usually fails miserably. thats not two DEFAULT routes, thats simply routes to various specific networks via gateways on the eth1 network. and, yes, having two routes to destination 0.0.0.0 will rarely do what you want. it will, however, create all kinda messes.