Well, As Collins and Simon suggested,
I removed the other default gws and remained with one. IT WORKS! Thank you all for your assistance. :) On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 03:38:08PM +0300, Otandeka Simon Peter wrote: > > Richard, > > > > First of all have one default gateway. Usually the public IPs default gw > is > > used. So your public IPs should use that. > > For your private IP, you may need to specifically set a route in your > table > > to channel traffic through the gateway specified something like > > "route add -net 172.16.0.0 gw 172.16.0.1 eth3". > > I am not on my suse box to test it out but I think it is written like > that. > > You need a range of IPs to specify a network. > > route add -net 172.16.0.0/16 gw 172.16.0.1 eth3 > > The problem is that eth3 is already configured with a 255.255.0.0 > netmask, so that doesn't make any sense. > > Here is a little networking theory. There are two kinds of IP addresses > ones which are reachable directly and ones which need a gateway. Known > and unknown in other words. IP address cannot be both known and > unknown. > > In this case 172.16.0.1 is known. That's a gateway and we don't need a > gateway to reach the gateway. In fact with a netmask of 255.255.0.0 all > the addresses which start with 172.16. are known and do not need a > gateway. > > If your internal network is really set up to need a gateway (ie all the > addresses are unknown except the gateway), and I totally don't believe > it is then you'd have to configure it like this: > > ifconfig eth3 172.16.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.255 > route add -host 172.16.0.1 eth3 > route add -net 172.16.0.0/16 gw 172.16.0.1 eth3 > > But that's nonsense. :P You don't need a gateway for the internal > network. > > regards, > dan carpenter > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. > -- Richard Zulu gtug lead, Kampala (Uganda) http://kampala.gtugs.org
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