Quickie... Hopefully!

[Richard Marriner]

Yes,  I have tried that, but it doesn't send the reply out the route that it
received it on.

Richard
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Kris Kennaway
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 3:34 PM
> To: Richard Marriner
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Quickie... Hopefully!
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:25:07PM -0700, Richard Marriner wrote:
> > Dear list,
> > 
> >    Just wondering if there is anyway (preferably simple.) 
> to have two ip
> > addresses on the same NIC that are different networks.  
> > 
> > A little background.  We are in the process of changing 
> ISPs, we now have
> > two circuits going to two differnet ISPs.  Because of this 
> change we have to
> > renumber our entire network.  Being an ISP ourselves we 
> have a handful of
> > servers that run FreeBSD.  While trying to get one of our 
> test servers to
> > talk to both networks from the internet we fail, I think 
> because even though
> > your request is on the new numbers FreeBSD still trys 
> routing the response
> > back through our old gateway.  Another question, I know in 
> Windows XP you
> > can set two gateways, two ips, etc.  Can you do this in 
> FBSD?   Our windows
> > boxes are talking fine on both networks.
> 
> Yes, there's nothing to it..use the 'ifconfig alias' command.
> 
> Kris
>