hi, On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:59:45AM +0100, minh thu wrote: > Hi, > > I don't think it makes sense : a host connect to another host through > routing. > It means it use the routing tables on the first host to determine the route. > If you can reach the destination by multiple routes, it's the routing > protocol to decide by which interface you will emit. If you want to > use a sepecific interface, you have to change those routing tables.
i think there are some cases where it makes sense to specify a source address. e.g. when you have multiple addresses on the same interface and want to use a specific one (for example if you have migrated some services from another machine on the same lan and those services need to connect to some backend behind a firewall and you can't get those firewall admins to allow connections from the primary ip of the host where the services have been migrated to :) but i agree that most of the time it doesn't make sense to request a specific source address for a connection. nevertheless i think it should be supported by chicken. bye, hans. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
