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Linux Networking Cookbook
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Linux Networking Cookbook

by Gregory Boyce
June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
3h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Connecting two networks

For our next step, we're going to add a second interface to server 1. In addition to 10.0.0.1/24 being configured on eth0, we're going to configure 192.168.0.1/24 on eth1. The second interface could just as easily be 10.0.1.1/24, but let's make sure that the networks are obviously different.

The systems should be configured similar to Figure 1:

Connecting two networks

How to do it…

Let's connect two networks:

  1. Configure the network interface on eth1 on server 1:
    # ip link set dev eth1 up
    # ip addr add dev eth1 192.168.0.1/24
    # ip addr list eth1
    3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
     link/ether ...
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