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Re: Selecting network for Internet access

From Thomas Schmidt <bbeamer@gmx.de>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Selecting network for Internet access
Date 2011-02-08 17:32 +0100
Message-ID <8rd9evFri1U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> (permalink)
References <iijt5m$krl$1@news.albasani.net> <iik975$7e1$2@news.albasani.net>

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Am 05.02.2011 20:42, schrieb The Natural Philosopher:
> Clark Smith wrote:
>>     I know very little about networking so please bear with me.
>>
>>     I have a Linux box M with two NICs. The first NIC is connected to
>> network A, whereas the second NIC is connected to network B. Both
>> networks have an Internet gateway. These gateways are totally
>> independent from each other.
>>
>>     Currently all Internet traffic on M is sent/received through
>> network A. Can I dynamically select in M which of the A and B networks
>> to use for Internet traffic? 
> 
> set default route
> 
> man route

You would probably also need to get a new ip address and dns server via
dhcp from the internet provider in the other network:

dhcpcd -n
(The command may vary according to your linux version)

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Selecting network for Internet access Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> - 2011-02-05 16:16 +0000
  Re: Selecting network for Internet access Jan Wideł <jwnews@_NOSPAM_debian.maszyna.pl> - 2011-02-05 18:20 +0100
  Re: Selecting network for Internet access Douglas Mayne <none@invalid.com> - 2011-02-05 18:09 +0000
  Re: Selecting network for Internet access Thomas Schmidt <bbeamer@gmx.de> - 2011-02-08 17:32 +0100
  Re: Selecting network for Internet access Max <nomail@forme.invalid> - 2011-02-07 22:38 +0100

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