On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Rob Windsor wrote:
Assuming that you are running a quad card so that you can touch four different subnets...
or to be more exact to touch more than one subnet.
You only have one "default gateway". Let's see if I can sum up why without oversimplifying:
Actually you have at most 1 default gateway.
To simplify things (and allow failover routing to function), the routing table only keeps a list of immediate networks and destinations (and hand-entered routes), and one place to send "everything else" that it doesn't know directly.
But it doesn't have to have a place to send "everything else." In fact if you have at least interface directly attached to every network you want the NAC to service and don't want people to be able to access it from anywhere else, you don't want to set a default gateway. Also, if you put in statically all the gateways for all the networks you want the NAC to service and don't want it to service any other network then you also don't want to have a default gateway.
With that in mind, things are very simple. If you already have a "default gateway" set up because of your single card, you probably don't have to change it.
Unless you don't want the traffic to go through that gateway anymore.
It didn't work out as well as we had hoped, we're not hitting near 25% capacity on either of the two ports (mmm, mrtg).
I don't understand, you should be happy about the network not being congested. BTW, that's a clever poor man's trunking (or really LAN aggregation). ;)
Tom