Hi i have 2 separate i.p address and i am looking to route traffic through each of them (load balancing). But for the life of me i cannot get it to work.
Is it possible on 1 ethernet card? To set up two separate i.p addresses?
The two separate i.p addresses are using the same gateway.

Thanks much

R u trying to setup a gateserver or something.

see the ifconfig command

Yes I am trying to set up my linux box to accept data packet over 2 separate i.p's and load balance between the two... Both i.p use the same gateway server ex(10.144.0.1) but I cannot bind two i.p to one eth0 card

Heres a copy of my ifconfig


eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:9781
inet addr:209.105.221.138 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1570750 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:170419 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:340742
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:349024894 (332.8 Mb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xd000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:4B:3C:5A
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:178138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:245177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:12520336 (11.9 Mb) TX bytes:275519218 (262.7 Mb)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xb000

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:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7480 (7.3 Kb) TX bytes:7480 (7.3 Kb)




But as it stands i own the i.p address 209.105.221.138 and 209.105.221.210 and want this box to accept packets over both and send packets over both i.p's and help would be much appreciated

i am using iproute2

Tell me if this means that it is working and if so how do i go about checking if it does in fact work?

> ip route list
209.105.221.210 via 209.105.221.1 dev eth0
209.105.221.138 via 209.105.221.1 dev eth0
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 scope link
209.105.221.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 209.105.221.138
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link
default via 209.105.221.1 dev eth0



> ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:9781
inet addr:209.105.221.138 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1750002 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:193087 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:386034
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:376070956 (358.6 Mb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xd000

eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:9781
inet addr:209.105.221.210 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xd000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:4B:3C:5A
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:215490 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:287039 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:18784709 (17.9 Mb) TX bytes:301529136 (287.5 Mb)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xb000

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:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7680 (7.5 Kb) TX bytes:7680 (7.5 Kb)