i am a newbie,

i have 2 network cards, i am trying to setup a bandwidth manager! now the thing is i have the 2 cards, both of them load up when linux starts but when i ping each ip address it goes to only 1 netwrok card! why is this happaning and are there any answers?

Need more info. Please post the output of:

ifconfig -a
route

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:43:05:3B
inet addr:10.10.10.55 Bcast:10.10.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:240 (240.0 b)
Interrupt:11

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0F:23:80:E3
inet addr:10.10.10.52 Bcast:10.10.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:183 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:23978 (23.4 Kb) TX bytes:16009 (15.6 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:700 (700.0 b) TX bytes:700 (700.0 b)


yeah and i ping both ip's and it goes stright to the 1 card? i am very confuzed

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.10.10.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
10.10.10.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 10.10.10.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1