[CentOS] Two external interfaces, one with "default" route and ping problem

Clint Dilks clint.dilks at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 03:59:53 UTC 2013


Hi,

Two IP addresses within the same subnet is generally something that should
be avoided if at all possible.

See
http://serverfault.com/questions/336021/two-network-interfaces-and-two-ip-addresses-on-the-same-subnet-in-linuxfor
some information that may help.




On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst at barrett.com.au>wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I have two different IP addresses (in a block of /29), one is on port 0
> and the other is on port 2 of a Ciso 888.
> I am doing this so I can have two different certs with two different ip
> addresses.
>
> I have tried:
>
>  1) one machine, two real interfaces, two cables (eth0 and eth2)
>  2) one machine, one real interface eth0 and one virtual interface eth0:1,
> one network cable
>
>
> Using number 2)
> I can ping the two different ip addresses, no problem. The only problem
> here is that iptables does not work (I cannot create rules for eth0:1 - and
> yes I know about the security implications).
>
>
> I have a problem with number number 1)
>
> I can ping the first ip address and I get a return, but I cannot get a
> return when I ping the second ip address.
> I can see traffic coming into the second interface but it does not return.
> Now one of the interfaces needs the "default" route applied (is this
> correct??), which is eth0.
>
> I assume this is a routing problem?
> What do I need to do to get this to work?
>
>
>
> Jobst
>
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