Advance Routing for Multi-homed Linux

This page shows you how to configure a Multi-homed Linux Box with 2 Network Interfaces to connect to the internet properly.

 

Multi-homed Network

 

Step 1 – Update /etc/iproute2/rt_tables

echo 1 NET100 >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
echo 2 NET200 >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables

 

Step 2 – Update the Routing Table

ip route add default via 192.168.100.1 dev eth1 table NET100
ip rule add from 192.168.100.0/24 table NET100

ip route add default via 192.168.200.1 dev eth0 table NET200
ip rule add from 192.168.200.0/24 table NET200

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