What am I missing here?

First of I have a RH 7.2 server w/ 2 Ethernet cards. Im using it for
a proxy server.

Since I set it up It has been running slow. After alot of trouble shooting I've narrowed it down to a route problem.

my eth0 (X.X.181.17) is my internal IP and my eth1 (X.X.180.17) is my external IP. Whats happening is that when a packet hits eth0, eth0 sends to its default GW which is X.X.181.1 and the GW sends it to the external side eth1!!!! I want all web traffic to go from eth0 to eth1 and not leave the box. How can I set this up????

Thanks in advance!

if you send something to .181.1 it has to get there through .181.17

do you have these route entries

route -n

255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1
192.168.181.17 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.180.17 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
192.168.181.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.181.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


or something like it

Here it is.......

Kernel IP routing table
Dest GW mask Flag Met Ref Use Iface
X.X.181.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
X.X.180.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 X.X.180.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

why do you want the web triffic to go from eth0 to eth1 without leaving the computer?
I got my proxy set-up on port 3129 on my eth 1 (internal) and tell my computers to use a proxy at 192.168.0.1:3129.

it should be working ok with that route

is everything that goes from this computer out slow

it may be the nic or a cable problem.

if you want it to bridge the two networks then look into making it a bridge. otherwise it sounds normal to me.

if the server is to access a computer on the .180.0 interface you will see that it uses the right interface to get there.

also it will use the other one for addresses in it's network