Well, not so much goodness it turns out…

So while I have two pipes to the Internet now, there is some deeply buried magic in the kernel that is not happy about two default routes to the rest of the world. So I’m scaling back my plans at the moment.

I’ve dropped the Covad connection for now and will try to bring it back up once I replace the hard drive controller that I believe to be at fault in my oldest of machines. Once I have effectively a spare machine to play with, I may try again. It looks like I may need to track down an actual router daemon rather than relying on the kernel to keep track of what’s what. Unfortunately, it looks like Red Hat moved that to their cluster suite (I’ve not spent too much time looking for it yet).

I’ll update later when I know more. At the moment, I have 4 of my 5 IPs from Verizon seeming to work as promised and Covad says they have fixed their connection — but I need less confusing networking to verify that or prove them wrong.