I'm fiddling around on a vmware os and setup 4 nics in on system. 2 of them being connected to the same ISP and 1 going to one network segment and the other going to another network segment.

Basically want to have 2 WANs going to different segments. That I have working using firewall rules (iptables) but since the default gateway is set to one of the external eithernet adapters all internal traffic goes out the same adapter.

Basic scenario:
eth0 > 24.x.x.x
eth1 > 24.x.x.x
eth2 > 192.168.1.x (internal segment #1 - physical segment)
eth3 > 172.16.x.x (internal segment #2 - vmware host only)

default gateway is eth1

I've taken a look at mangle using mark in iptable but not exactly sure how to configure iproute2 to push traffic marked out the eth# adapter that I want. ...if at all possible.

So all external traffic goes where I want it since I know internal destination IPs but for internal out I would like try and do this:

eth2 out eth0
eth3 out eth1

Thanks!

are you looking for somethign like this? http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.mu...ks.html#AEN268 Either way it's really not ideal to be using two nic's on a single subnet... where's the logic in it??? You could be bridging those two ports i guess, but that takes away the logic of wanting to routie certain traffic in certain ways. If these two nic's are on the same subnet, there's no argument to want to send trafic either way.. if you're not breaking the netowrk then either interface should be a suitable candidate anyway...

Thanks for the reply Chris. There isn't much logic in running two nics on the same subnet usually. In this case I want to have 2 seperate external IP's for a web project so I can have a website on a virtual subnet in VMWare and whatever else on my physical and was attempting to create a dual firewall to use less memory, allow traffic routing from my physical to virtual subnet, etc.

I'm not exactly sure but according to some users on my ISP they claim the traffic seems to be throttled via IP address depending on how much a user uploads/downloads or just set at a specific speed. I haven't tested it to verify this yet. If it appears to be throttled this way the next thing I'm looking at is bridging adapters (this is I haven't tried before) to see if I can squeeze some more speed out of my connection.

well if it's more per ip than per NIC, maybe you just need to put two ip's on the same card? create an eth0:1 to take the second IP? might be suitable to go gigabit?