[SLUG] A problem getting ADSL to work

[Jeffrey Borg]

Opps one more thing to that diagram

You will need to use eth1 as the interface with the alias. otherwise it
won't work at all. Otherwise it will try and send the packets out the eth0
interface back onto your local lan.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jeffrey Borg wrote:

> You could do what I did to get satellite working using an aliases address
> for outgoing stuff
>
> say it's eth0 and eth0:0
>
> so
> route del default
> route add default gw 172.24.1.1 dev eth0:0
>
> would do the trick. (well it works on ppp links, I can not see how it
> wouldn't work on ethernet)
>
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote:

> > ASCII piccy
> >
> > Private network         192.168.1.0/24
> >                                |
> >                                |-- 192.168.1.20 (234.234.234.235)
> >                            eth0|                      (alias)
> >                    -------------------------
> >                    |      192.168.1.1      |
> >                    |   (234.234.234.234)   |
> > Linux Box          |        (alias)        |
> >                    |                       |
> >                    |                       |
> >                    |      172.24.1.2       |
> >                    -------------------------
> >                            eth1|
> >                                |
> >                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > ADSL Service Provider     172.24.1.1
> >                                ?
> >                                ?
> >                       The world out there