Hello all,

I have the following routes:

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.0.1.96 * 255.255.255.240 U 0 0 0 eth1
10.1.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

The following rules:
ip rule show
0: from all lookup 255
32764: from 10.0.1.109 lookup admin
32765: from all to 10.0.1.109 lookup admin
32766: from all lookup main
32767: from all lookup default

and the following table:
ip route list table admin
10.0.1.96/28 dev eth1 scope link src 10.0.1.109
default via 10.0.1.110 dev eth1

when I do:
ping yahoo.com
ping: unknown host yahoo.com


However if I add the following default gw:
route add default gw 10.0.1.110 dev eth1

So that the route looks like this:
route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.0.1.96 * 255.255.255.240 U 0 0 0 eth1
10.1.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 10.0.1.110 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

PING:
ping yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (98.137.149.56) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sp2.yahoo.com (98.137.149.56): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=95.5 ms


Makes no sense to me
Anyone has any suggestions - i'm pretty sure i'm just missing something minor as always - just can't see it

Thank you!

When there is no default gateway entered, how should the target be reached? So the setup with the gateway is working as it should, or I got your question in the wrong way.

I think you r right, but from my understanding of IP RULEs and different tables I sort of thought that the following:
ip route list table admin
10.0.1.96/28 dev eth1 scope link src 10.0.1.109
default via 10.0.1.110 dev eth1

would allow eth1 to use 10.0.1.110 as its default gateway

The reason i'm doing all of this is because i'm actually trying to use two connections simultaneously, which requires two default gateways.