How to enable two network interfaces both for internet in ubuntu12.04

My physical server has two interfaces: eth0 and eth1. I intend to enable the two network interfaces both for internet in ubuntu12.04. I configure the /etc/network/interfaces as below:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.10.101.105
gateway 10.10.101.254
netmask 255.255.255.0
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 10.10.101.205
gateway 10.10.101.254
netmask 255.255.255.0

And the output of ifconfig is shown below:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr e0:db:55:25:ed:10
          inet addr:10.10.101.105  Bcast:10.10.101.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::e2db:55ff:fe25:ed10/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1148531 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:554215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1636019748 (1.6 GB)  TX bytes:40068201 (40.0 MB)
          Interrupt:35

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr e0:db:55:25:ed:11
          inet addr:10.10.101.205  Bcast:10.10.101.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::e2db:55ff:fe25:ed11/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:56699 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4077879 (4.0 MB)  TX bytes:492 (492.0 B)
          Interrupt:38

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:124891 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:124891 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1484482588 (1.4 GB)  TX bytes:1484482588 (1.4 GB)

So, I think both the 2 network interfaces are up. However, I find I can access my physical server only via eth0(10.10.101.105), and fail to access it via eth1(10.10.101.205).

When I use route -n to check the router table in my server, it shows:

vli05@vli05:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         10.10.101.254   0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 eth0
10.10.101.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
10.10.101.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1

I could not find any thing wrong. Could you please give me some ideas? Thanks.

user2886717

Posted 2014-02-19T12:28:37.927

Reputation:

The question seems fine and on-topic to me. You might get better help at AskUbuntu, but it is also fine here.

– Hennes – 2014-11-16T12:23:41.137

It might be a bit dated by now: But how are you trying to access the host? From the 10.10.101.0/24 LAN via a PC which has the first NICs ARP in its cache? – Hennes – 2014-11-16T12:24:38.083

You may want to ask this question at Ask Ubuntu or Unix & LInux.

– 0 0 – 2014-02-19T12:33:09.620

This question appears to be off-topic because it belongs on askubuntu.com – Ian Kemp – 2014-02-19T13:30:17.107

How to enable two network interfaces both for internet in ubuntu12.04

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