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Old 02-21-2013, 12:06 PM   #1
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Traffic moves to another eth


hi guys

I have a server which has 2 nics eth0 and eth1

eth0 is used for our email traffic server. everything working fine

some time later a eth1 was added for backup purposes so this new nic sends data to another vlan for backup purposes

all of a sudden our mail server starts to fail and we found that protocols or traffic specifically 80 and 8080 is trying to traffic flow using eth1 which is only for backups as I said....

so any idea to link this traffic 80 - 8080 to only eth0?

suse 11

thanks a lot
 
Old 02-21-2013, 12:20 PM   #2
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Did this happen immediately after configuring the second ethernet?

You might check your default route - data will go there for general traffic.
 
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Did this happen immediately after configuring the second ethernet?

You might check your default route - data will go there for general traffic.

yes after adding second nic once is removed issue is gone
 
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I believe what is happening is that your default route is being switched to the second ethernet.
 
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I believe what is happening is that your default route is being switched to the second ethernet.

and how do you set the default only for eth0?

I mean the routes file has the default gateway configured for eth0
 
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NetworkManager is well known to screw things up when there is more than one network. I gave up on it for that reason.

What is likely happening is that the default route is set to whichever interface is brought up - which means when the second one is brought up the default route is switched, and the gateway configuration is being ignored.

One way to try is to disable the second network unless you actually need it.
 
  


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