[Chester LUG] Routing a specific IP through a non-default interface

[Ben Arnold]

Afternoon Les,


On 6 March 2014 15:35, you wrote:

> Would the gateway of 1.1.1.1 only be available via your wlan? If you
> added a static route for the destination IP as going via 1.1.1.1 that it
> should take that route when your wifi is connected. The only issue is that
> when you don't have your wifi connected it may route to your destination IP
> via the eth, would that be an issue?
>

Yes, 1.1.1.1 is only available through the wlan0.

I should probably mention that the first command fails; "No such process"
it complains when adding a second gateway and specifying an interface,
which I believe is because the "via 1.1.1.1" doesn't know *how* to go via
that IP.


Cheers,
Ben

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