Re: one iSeries ethernet card and two routers

Thanks Bryan, It did work when we added a 2nd interface,
and put a preferred binding on each.
jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Dietz" <BDietz@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: one iSeries ethernet card and two routers


> have you tried adding a second IP address to theethernet card?
>
> maybe like 10.10.10.111 for the DSL connections
> keeping 10.10.10.10 to the web interface.
>
> that way you could have two default routes
>
> I would think you need to specify the "prefered binding interface" parm
> when adding the route.
>
> ----------------------------
> Bryan Dietz
> Aktion Associates
>
>
> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/02/2005 12:51:16 AM:
>
> > (continued from dsl dilemna thread)
> > I think my problem is that I defined 2 *dftroutes and have the 2
> > routers in same lan segment:
> > a dsl router for vpn access for remote iSeries users,
> > and a T1 router/firewall for iSeries webserver & pc internet
> > traffic, email, etc.
> > iSeries with 1 ethernet card  10.10.10.10 subnet 255.0.0.0
> > and a public ip 70.x.x.x for web traffic (firewall only allows port
> > 80 thru to iSeries).
> > dsl router 10.10.10.11 (all users thru vpn assigned a 172.x.x.x
> > private address)
> > T1 router 10.10.10.12
> > I have a *dftroute to each router. This has never worked. For a
> > while webserver worked fine,
> > but dsl did not. Telco changed dsl config & now it works but then
> > webserver unreachable from web.
> > iSeries can ping both routers on the lan. It seems confused by 2
> > default routes.
> >
> > If having 2 routers, do they need to be on different lan segments?
> > Will this work? (idea from a thread in Aug 2001) -
> > iSeries 10.10.10.10 subnet 255.255.255.0
> > and also 10.10.1.10 subnet 255.255.255.0
> > dsl router 10.10.10.11 (same as before)
> > T1 router 10.10.1.12   (and forwarding web traffic to 10.10.1.10)
> > (changing this router to x.x.1.x)
> > *dftroute    *none        10.10.10.11
> > *dftroute   *none        10.10.1.12
> > There is nothing unique about remote address of vpn users thru dsl,
> > or web traffic users thru T1.
> > Is iSeries smart enough to know which dftroute to return on (because
> > it's not doing it now...)
> > Is this such an odd setup?
> > btw - even though current subnet is 10.0.0.0 - only 10.10.10.x
> > addresses have been assigned in this network, either fixed or thru dhcp.
> >
> > tia
> > Jim Franz
>
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