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From: Carsten Aulbert <carsten@welcomes-you.com>
Subject: Re: 2nd default gateway
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:40:18 +0200
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Gery wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have Linux machine with 2 ethernet cards in different segments. Like
> 10.2.1.1 and 192.168.1.1
> Do i need 2 default gateways in routing table? Please, give me an
> example when it may happen.
> 

To my understanding no, that won't work since the default gw is a match
anything solution. Thus if you put two default gws into your routing
table the second one will never be looked at (if sorting stays the same).

HTH

Carsten