routing, 2 nics, and a default gateways

[Grzegorz Burzyński]

You wrote:
>I have 2 nics. The first has about 30 ips assigned to it and working
> correctly. The other was a backup nic for the ISP backup network, but its
> now I was asked to assign ips and a default gateway specification to
> it,because we ran out of usable ips on the 1st nic, so we have a new
> netblock ready for assignment.

 Hello!
 It sounds strange to me, that you got 30 IPs assigned to 1 NIC and
 you ran out of usable ones. Didn't you think about changing size of
 your subnet assigned to that NIC? If you'll assign a subnet mask of
 255.255.255.0 you'll get 254 usable IPs. Now you can forget about
 your 2nd NIC. All you have to do (after changing the subnet mask on
 server) is to change mask on hosts in your network (you can leave
 other settings unchanged).
 Hope it will work for you.

 Greetz
 Grzegorz Burzyński
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