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Fellow AIX'ers;

I have a situation that I cannot seem to get configured properly.
Perhaps someone can advise?

System has single NIC with two IP's (primary + alias) both in the
private range

192.168.0.4 primary
192.168.250.4 alias

The default gateway IP is 192.168.0.1

There is a static route for the alias for a specific IP as follows:
170.186.14.xxx / 255.255.255.0 --> 192.168.250.1 which is the IP of a
secondary router on a different network.

From the host I can ping both routers just fine. And I can ping or
traceroute anything else that goes through the primary gateway.

I can ping the secondary router 192.168.250.1 just fine but NOTHING
beyond.

If I traceroute with a -s parameter of 192.168.250.4 the trace will
properly go through the secondary router to the destination just fine.
If I do NOT specify the -s (source IP) parameter it appears to attempt
to go through the primary router of which the destination IP is
unreachable.

My question is this: Other than defining a static route, how can I
force the access to the 170.186.14.xxx to go through the secondary
router IP of 192.168.250.1 ???


Any advice/recommendations greatly appreciated.

B

> I can ping the secondary router 192.168.250.1 just fine but NOTHING
> beyond.
>

r u sure the routers/nodes behind that sec. routers know where to send their reply-packet (know the "way back")?

On Mon, 03 May 2004 18:42:52 +0200, Holger van Koll
<holger@vankoll.de> wrote:

>> I can ping the secondary router 192.168.250.1 just fine but NOTHING
>> beyond.
>>
>
>r u sure the routers/nodes behind that sec. routers know where to send their reply-packet (know the "way back")?


Yes - sure;

Finally got this going. The smit tcpip router maintenance commands
seemed to be screwing me up. No matter what static router was being
added, this command always inserted a second default command for the
same IP going to the primary router.

Using the manual route command from the CLI, I was able to delete ALL
the offending routes and re-establish them, one at a time, and
eventually they all worked.

It's NOT supposed to work like this. But hey, at least it is now
working...