RE: Two ethernet cards

["M.Venkataramana" <venky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanx Chetan it worked ofcouse two different networks

venkat  



On Wednesday, June 30, 1999 3:33 PM, Chetan Kumar [SMTP:chetansk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, M.Venkataramana wrote:
> 
> > HI all,
> > 
> > I guess my mail looks confusing to everybody, Actaully what i mean by 
> > saying ping eth0 is ping the IP address of eth0 ie 196.12.46.180 for eth0 
> > and 196.12.46.179 for eth1
> 
> WOW you want to add two device on to the same network, why ?? OK here is
> why it doen't work.
> 
> You add a route to the routing table with device say eth0. Now it is
> working, now U want to add one more device(eth1) with the same destination
> (as the netid is same). So this new destination gets added and the old
> destination (and the device  eth0) will get deleated from the table. So at
> any time you have one device working(This is under assumtion that both
> route add have same metric, if not always route and device with lesser
> metric remain). HTH. 
> 
> If you want two device add it on to diffrent network .
> 
> -Chetan S
> 
> 
> 
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