Default gateway

You can specify the default gateway that will allow your HAProxy ALOHA appliance to communicate with devices outside its subnet.

1. Before beginning, be sure to:

   • [VM appliance] Create a snapshot of your VM.

   • [Hardware appliance] Make sure you can connect to your appliance through the serial port.

     If you specify an invalid IP address for the default gateway, you may not be able to log in to your appliance through SSH or display the web UI.

2. In the Services tab, click network instance setup next to a network interface.

   

3. Specify the default gateway through the ip route default directive.

   For example, to use the router whose IP address is 172.16.24.1 as the default gateway:

   haproxy
   service network eth0
     ip address 172.16.24.237/255.255.255.0
     ip route default 172.16.24.1

   haproxy
   service network eth0
     ip address 172.16.24.237/255.255.255.0
     ip route default 172.16.24.1

4. Optional: If you configure multiple network interfaces, for example eth0 and eth1, each with a different default gateway via ip route default, then assign a metric value to each one to indicate their order of preference. The default gateway with the lowest metric value has the highest priority and will be chosen when routing to destinations outside the network. If metric is not set, it defaults to 0.

   haproxy
   service network eth0
     ip address 172.16.24.237/255.255.255.0
     ip route default 172.16.24.1 metric 10

   haproxy
   service network eth0
     ip address 172.16.24.237/255.255.255.0
     ip route default 172.16.24.1 metric 10

   Policy-based routing

   Beginning in HAProxy ALOHA 16.5, you can also use policy-based routing to set default routes on each interface.

5. Click OK and Close to return to the Services tab.

6. Reload the network interface or the whole network service.

   Version > 16.0

   In versions greater than 16.0, click the Apply new configuration button on the interface to apply the changes and automatically restart the network interface service.

7. To check the default gateway, go to the Tools tab and click Launch a terminal. Then run netstat -r.

   nix
   netstat -r

   nix
   netstat -r

   output
   text
   Kernel IP routing table
   Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
   default         172.16.24.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0
   172.16.24.0     *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0

   output
   text
   Kernel IP routing table
   Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
   default         172.16.24.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0
   172.16.24.0     *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0

8. To make your changes persistent after a reboot, click the Setup tab. Then click Save under Configuration.