need two nics to run at the sametime , ubuntu server

Hello Sorrillo

Here are the results

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
142.161.133.209 0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp1
142.161.133.202 0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
206.45.95.156   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp1
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ppp1
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ppp0

Please can someone look into this for me  

I think this might help you...

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1001682.html

Andrew

Hello

That is helpful . however in this post , the guy is using dhcp and i am on a pppoe connection . I have tested this out previously and both nics work through dhcp . Its trying to get them towork on a pppoe connection.

Ah, I have little experience with pppoe I'm afraid...
I don't think I can be of much help with the pppoe setup

Sorry,
Andrew

What you want to do is called "Bonding"... check out this article:
http://www.howtoforge.com/network_bonding_ubuntu_6.10

It is for ubuntu 6.10 but the principles are the same...

The problem in your case is just bond them for failover, so it might work.
Otherwise check this distro:

http://zeroshell.net/eng/

It has a very easy integrated web interface for configuring failover and load balancing for PPPoE connections

i currently have direct admin installled on my servers , would you know if i could install zeroshell without affecting direct admin .

 how would my interfaces file look like . I guess where would the below comment get placed and more so what would i place in there for an ip &  hardware address

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
   address 192.168.0.120
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   network 192.168.0.0
   broadcast 192.168.0.255
   gateway 192.168.0.1
   hwaddress ether 00:03:B3:48:50:2C
   post-up ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1

I think you want to have multiple paths to the internet (two).

your problem is routing, since there can be only one default gateway to the internet. which one of your two interfaces could be that one?

Solution is simple, however, because linux provided for that with iproute2 package.

in the Linux Advanced Routing howto, they show you how to setup as many routing tables as you need.
ok, to the matter:
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html

hope this help

My default would be eth0 interface . I need both interfaces to be able to send and receive . However the default connection at the terminal would be eth0 .

you cannot have a "default" when you have two different interfaces being the default gateway to the network 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0.

you can, however, mark which traffic you want to go to each interfase.
i.e.

you can mark traffic coming from the first interfase, to go out on that same interfase. the same with the second interfase.

you can also mark OUTPUT traffic to go on a specific interfase, like "all the web traffic go to the second, and the ssh traffic go to the first one"

just give the guide a try.

ok will i'll give it a go  , i'll let you know

ok , so i think i am doing somthing wrong . After i used the below commands , nothing happened . Please have a look and tell me what i am doing wrong here


ip route add 206.45.95.156 dev ppp0 src 206.45.95.156 table 1
ip route add default via 206.45.95.1 table 1
ip route add 206.45.95.174 dev ppp1 src 206.45.95.174 table 2
ip route add default via 206.45.95.1 table 2


          ip rule add from 206.45.95.156 table 1
          ip rule add from 206.45.95.174 table 2

ip route add 206.45.95.156     dev eth0 table 1
ip route add 206.45.95.156     dev ppp0 table 1
ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo   table 1
ip route add 206.45.95.174     dev eth1 table 2
ip route add 206.45.95.174    dev ppp1 table 2
ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo   table 2

ok , so i did that and now ppp0 and ppp1 is no longer ion my ifconfig , if i try and bring them up with pon dsleth0 and pon dsleth1 nothing happens . There is nothing showing in route - n command .

is there any way i could reset my routing to the way they were and retry

ok , i am going to give it another shot . I'll let you know how i make out.

Hi The--Captain, I'm sorry but I tried to keep things simple. I understand you can have as many redundant routes to any other network as you want, provided they have a priority. Also you can have as much as 32,767 routing tables created using iproute2, which is a great feature to do whatever you want with routing in linux.

however in this case I think dereckd tried to do bonding or other setup before we started advising on how to do the correct routing.

dereckd, would you mind to post here the output of

route -n

ifconfig

?

and maybe restat what you want to do at this very moment?

Thank you all for your patience

At the moment route -n results in nothing ,just the column names appear .

Ifconfig brings up eth0 ,eth1 and lo  . No ppp0 or ppp1 .

I would like to reset my routing table and start from scratch .