i need help, at my scenario I need that pakets from hosts wich have default gw eth0 to lookup table 1 and the pakets that come from hosts that have default gw eth0:0 to lookup tha main table in my tests the scenario 1 didn''t work and at the scenario 2 everything works I reseted to default switches but everything is the same, anyone have the idea or explanation what could be a problem, router configuration eth0 10.0.0.254/24 -- LAN eth0:0 10.0.0.253/24 -- LAN eth1 100.100.100.254/24 -- BACKBONE Table main ip route add 10.0.0.0/24 via 10.0.0.253 table main ip route add 100.100.100.0/24 dev eth1 table main ip route add default via 100.100.100.2 table main Table 1 ip route add 10.0.0.0/24 via 10.0.0.254 table 1 ip route add 100.100.100.0/24 dev eth1 table 1 ip route add default via 100.100.100.1 table 1 ip rule add dev eth0 table 1 ------------------------------------------------------- Scenario 1 backbone ==switch= | | ==router== --- ==switch= | | LAN ------------------------------------------------------- Scenario 2 backbone ==switch= |-------------| | | | | ==router== --- ==switch= | | LAN -------------------------------------------------------- thanks a lot,