have a fedora8 pc. ftp and vmware worked when only one nic was configured. eth0 was set to a static ip available from the Internet. I then put a second nic in and connected it to my private network. After that i could connect to ftp from my internal network but no longer from the Internet (vmware experienced similar results).

What did activating the second nic have to do with the

Here is the output from a few commands that i hope are relavent. 199.72.38.67 is a static ip from our ISP. It is named vm.ivsi.com.

[root@vm ~]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
199.72.38.64 * 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.148.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8
10.114.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 199.72.38.70 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

[root@vm ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:21:2B:93:9A
inet addr:199.72.38.67 Bcast:199.72.38.71 Mask:255.255.255.248
inet6 addr: fe80::219:21ff:fe2b:939a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2045218 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2322252 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:950320059 (906.2 MiB) TX bytes:915365999 (872.9 MiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xc000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:CD:15:44:1D
inet addr:10.114.1.38 Bcast:10.114.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20a:cdff:fe15:441d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:13545979 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22195050 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5276618329 (4.9 GiB) TX bytes:25924869121 (24.1 GiB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:17035006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17035006 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6254511351 (5.8 GiB) TX bytes:6254511351 (5.8 GiB)

vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:192.168.148.1 Bcast:192.168.148.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:26928 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Check your firewall (iptables) settings as well.

HTH

Forrest

It looks like the firewall isn't the issue

[root@vm devices]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp any
ACCEPT esp -- anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT ah -- anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT udp -- anywhere 224.0.0.251 udp dpt:mdns
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:ftp
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:smtp
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:https
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:ssh
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:http
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:vmware-authd
REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

i disabled eth1. vm and ftp were available eth0 (public nic). i noticed this difference in the route output with eth1 disabled.

default 199.72.38.70 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

vs

default 10.114.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

with eth1 enabled.

how can i get the default route to be the first one even with eth1 enabled? (perhaps that will help)