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I have a system (RHEL 5.3) serving meta data for a StorNext SAN on one port (eth0 10.0.0.0/24 with no gateway) and connecting to the "house" network (internet surfing and remote access) through the other (eth1 10.10.10.0/24 via 10.10.10.1).

When The NICs are connected everything is happy and works correctly, however, once you unplug eth1 (not ifdown, just unplug the actual cable) the StorNext software stops responding.

Thinking this is a routing issue I looked at the route table:

Code:

#>ip route show

10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.0.0.4 

10.10.10.0/24 dev eth1  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.10.10.38 

169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1  scope link 

default via 10.10.10.1 dev eth1

which seems in order... but thought I would add static routes anyway to be sure (from http://www.physics.umd.edu/pnce/pcs-...l#dual-subnets):

Code:

#Set up the first subnet's routing table (we'll name it 70)

ip route flush table 70

ip route add table 70 to 10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0



#Set up the second subnet's routing table (we'll call it 80)

ip route flush table 80

ip route add table 80 to 10.10.10.0/24 dev eth1

ip route add table 80 to default via 10.10.10.1 dev eth1



#Create the rules to choose what table to use. Choose based on source IP

#We need to give the rules different priorities; for convenience name priority

#after the table

ip rule add from 10.0.0.0/24 table 70 priority 70

ip rule add from 10.10.10.0/24 table 80 priority 80



#Flush the cache to make effective

ip route flush cache

but it still didn't work. Before I started barking up SorNext's tree I thought I would rule out OS routing details. Am I missing something here? I even tried to set eth0's IP as its own gateway in an act of desperation... any info would be helpful.