According to the release material I've read, AIX5L will allow
multiple default gateways.   You might check if this is
back-ported to some patch level for AIX 433.

Rick

On 26 Apr 2001, at 10:42, Taylor, David wrote:

> By definition, you can only have one default gateway.
>
> David Taylor
> Senior Software Systems Engineer
> West Bend Mutual Insurance
> (262) 335-7077
> dtaylor AT wbmi DOT com
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:rdearm1 AT UIC DOT EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 9:53 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: AIX Question
>
>
> I'm new to the AIX world so forgive me if the question seems stupid.  I
> installed two nic cards in my H70 running AIX 4.3.3.  Both are on different
> ip subnets.  Everytime I set the default gateway for the second nic card it
> changes the default gateway on the first card to be the same as the second.
> Am I doing something wrong.  It won't let me set two different default
> gateways for each card.
>
> Thanks
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