using multiple network adapters simultaneously [SOLVED]

itburnz · 2010-03-16 07:38:06

If someone could point me in the right direction with my question that would be great - I seem to not be able to google the right types of questions on this issue.

So here it goes:

I do have a wireless adpater and and 2 ethernet cards in my machine. I would like to connect to the internet using the wireless adapter and connect to the intranet using one of the ethernet adapters. There are some local websites that are only accessible on our intranet. So the browser should ideally direct to certain IPs through eth0 and to the www through wlan0. Also CUPS should go through eth0 whereas Thunderbird should go through wlan0. At the moment I bring eth0 up when I want to print and visit the intranet and then close it afterwards again - this is somewhat inconvenient though.

I'm sure there must be a way of creating rule-sets for which protocols and IP addresses are routed through which adapter. If you can provide me with a bump in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

Last edited by itburnz (2010-03-16 08:03:31)

itburnz · 2010-03-16 07:55:22

D'Oh! Apparently there's another post that I should've read. I assume I could use the route command to set up routes. I'll toy with that and see what happens.

fukawi2 · 2010-03-16 07:57:12

Routing is what you are after.... You'll need to setup a static route for your internal network, then leave your default route via the wlan

itburnz · 2010-03-16 08:03:13

Thanks! Time to learn something about networking...

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using multiple network adapters simultaneously [SOLVED]

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Re: using multiple network adapters simultaneously [SOLVED]

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