No takers on this question? I investigated further and it seems that this is a specific problem with iputils-ping. It seems that regardless of the supplied interface name, the source IP is chosen to be closest t the default gateway. OTOH my ability to follow C code is next to minimal, and I would really appreciate if someone can confirm this. Here is the part I believe is relevant:

if (source.sin_addr.s_addr == 0) {
        socklen_t alen;
        struct sockaddr_in dst = whereto;
        int probe_fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);

        if (probe_fd < 0) {
                perror("socket");
                exit(2);
        }
        if (device) {
                struct ifreq ifr;
                memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
                strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, device, IFNAMSIZ-1);
if (setsockopt(probe_fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BINDTODEVICE, device, strlen(device)+1) == -1) {
                        if (IN_MULTICAST(ntohl(dst.sin_addr.s_addr))) {
                                struct ip_mreqn imr;
                                if (ioctl(probe_fd, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr) < 0) {
                                        fprintf(stderr, "ping: unknown iface 
%s\n", device);
                                        exit(2);
                                }
                                memset(&imr, 0, sizeof(imr));
                                imr.imr_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
if (setsockopt(probe_fd, SOL_IP, IP_MULTICAST_IF, &imr, sizeof(imr)) == -1) {
                                        perror("ping: IP_MULTICAST_IF");
                                        exit(2);
                                }
                        }
                }
        }

        if (settos &&
setsockopt(probe_fd, IPPROTO_IP, IP_TOS, (char *)&settos, sizeof(int)) < 0)
                perror("Warning: error setting QOS sockopts");

        dst.sin_port = htons(1025);
        if (nroute)
                dst.sin_addr.s_addr = route[0];
        if (connect(probe_fd, (struct sockaddr*)&dst, sizeof(dst)) == -1) {
                if (errno == EACCES) {
                        if (broadcast_pings == 0) {
                                fprintf(stderr, "Do you want to ping broadcast? Then 
-b\n");
                                exit(2);
                        }
                        fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: pinging broadcast address\n");
                        if (setsockopt(probe_fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST,
                                           &broadcast_pings, 
sizeof(broadcast_pings)) < 0) {
                                perror ("can't set broadcasting");
                                exit(2);
                        }
                        if (connect(probe_fd, (struct sockaddr*)&dst, 
sizeof(dst)) == -1) {
                                perror("connect");
                                exit(2);
                        }
                } else {
                        perror("connect");
                        exit(2);
                }
        }
        alen = sizeof(source);
        if (getsockname(probe_fd, (struct sockaddr*)&source, &alen) == -1) {
                perror("getsockname");
                exit(2);
        }
        source.sin_port = 0;
        close(probe_fd);
} while (0);


Peter Rabbitson wrote:
Hi,

I have a testing multihome setup, with the default gateway being one of the links and using policy routing to honor requests for a specific link. Everything works as expected when I request a specific IP to bind to. But if I request a specific interface things fall apart in ways that I can not explain:

default gw (WORKS)
----------
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -c 1 yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (216.109.112.135) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=142 ms


request IP on same link as default gw (WORKS)
-------------------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -I 192.168.9.102 -c 1 yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (66.94.234.13) from 192.168.9.102 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.scd.yahoo.com (66.94.234.13): icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=176 ms

request IP on secondary link (WORKS)
----------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -I 172.16.0.2 -c 1 yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (216.109.112.135) from 172.16.0.2 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=146 ms

request interface of default gw link (WORKS)
------------------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -I eth1 -c 1 yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (66.94.234.13) from 192.168.9.102 eth1: 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.scd.yahoo.com (66.94.234.13): icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=176 ms

request secondary interface (FAILS)
---------------------------
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -I eth0 -c 1 yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (216.109.112.135) from 192.168.9.102 eth0: 56(84) bytes of data.
 From 172.16.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable


I went over the setup again and again, but I can't figure out why the last ping attempt fails. Any pointers are welcome!

Thanks

Peter


Here is the setup:

ip addr
----------
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:11:09:8d:4f:c1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 172.16.0.2/24 brd 172.16.0.255 scope global eth0
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:04:e2:80:b4:97 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.9.102/24 brd 192.168.9.255 scope global eth1


ip ro show table all
-----------------------
default via 172.16.0.1 dev eth0  table 10
default via 192.168.9.1 dev eth1  table 20
default via 192.168.9.1 dev eth1  table default
172.16.0.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 172.16.0.2
192.168.9.0/24 dev eth1  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.9.102
broadcast 127.255.255.255 dev lo table local proto kernel scope link src 127.0.0.1 broadcast 192.168.9.0 dev eth1 table local proto kernel scope link src 192.168.9.102 broadcast 172.16.0.0 dev eth0 table local proto kernel scope link src 172.16.0.2 local 192.168.9.102 dev eth1 table local proto kernel scope host src 192.168.9.102 local 172.16.0.2 dev eth0 table local proto kernel scope host src 172.16.0.2 broadcast 192.168.9.255 dev eth1 table local proto kernel scope link src 192.168.9.102 broadcast 172.16.0.255 dev eth0 table local proto kernel scope link src 172.16.0.2 broadcast 127.0.0.0 dev lo table local proto kernel scope link src 127.0.0.1 local 127.0.0.1 dev lo table local proto kernel scope host src 127.0.0.1 local 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo table local proto kernel scope host src 127.0.0.1


ip ru
-----
0:      from all lookup local
5:      from all lookup main
10:     from all iif eth0 lookup 10
11:     from 172.16.0.0/24 lookup 10
20:     from all iif eth1 lookup 20
21:     from 192.168.9.0/24 lookup 20
100:    from all lookup default


no netfilter rules of any sort (all policies set at ACCEPT)

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