April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
138 pages
3h 55m
English
With a multi-homed server, only one NIC will have a Default Gateway. Therefore, any subnets that we need to access through the other interfaces have to be specifically defined. Before we added this new route, the server was completely unable to contact the 10.0.1.x network. This is because the routing table did not have any information about this subnet, so any traffic trying to get there was being sent out the Default Gateway, which is on the External NIC plugged into the Internet. By adding a static route to our server, we have now defined a routing path for the server to take whenever it has traffic that needs to get to 10.0.1.x.
If you have many subnets in your network, you may be able to cover them all with a blanket ...