example use: one gateway to send outgoing traffic. Other traffic use the other gateway.

Two Gateways below for example:

gw1 : 172.26.2.100

gw2 : 172.26.3.100

Create a virtual interface which will be used by processes that need to send traffic to gateway gw2:

$ ifconfig eth0:1 172.26.3.209

Create a definition and give a name to the new routing table (index 1, name ‘test’):

$ echo “1 test” >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables

Show the main routing table:

$ ip route show table main

172.26.0.0/16 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 172.26.3.206

169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1002

default via 172.26.2.100 dev eth0

Clear the secondary routing table:

$ ip route flush table test

Copy all rules from main table to secondary table, but the default gateway

$ ip route show table main | egrep -Ev “^default” | while read route; do

ip route add table test $route

done

Add the gateway for the secondary routing table:

$ ip route add table test default via 172.26.3.100

List the secondary routing table:

$ ip route show table test

172.26.0.0/16 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 172.26.3.206

169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1002

default via 172.26.3.100 dev eth0

Add a rule so that for any packet to/from the virtual interface, thesecondary routing table is applied:

$ ip rule add from 172.267.3.209 lookup test

$ ip rule add to 172.267.3.209 lookup test

At this point, traffic originated from interface eth0:1 will use gateway gw2 (172.26.3.100) and traffic from interface eth0 enroutes via the default gateway gw1 (172.26.2.100). Try and compare:

$ traceroute -s 172.26.3.206 www.google.com

$ traceroute -s 172.26.3.209 www.google.com

In order to make the changes above persistent, edit/create the following files:

1. Add a description for the ‘test’ routing table (already done):

$ echo “1 test” >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables

2. Create file ‘/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1’ containing the

configuration of the virtual interface:

DEVICE=eth0:1

ONBOOT=yes

SEARCH=”mydomain.com”

DOMAIN=”mydomain.com”

DNS1=172.26.2.200

DNS2=172.26.2.201

BOOTPROTO=none

NETMASK=255.255.0.0

IPADDR=172.26.3.209

TYPE=Ethernet

USERCTL=no

PEERDNS=yes

IPV6INIT=no

NM_CONTROLLED=no

3. Create file ‘/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0:1’ containing the ‘test’ routing table:

table test 172.26.0.0/16 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 172.26.3.206

table test 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1002

table test default via 172.26.3.100

4. Create file ‘/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/rule-eth0:1’ containing therules for the virtual interface:

from 172.26.3.209 lookup test

to 172.26.3.209 lookup test