On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:55:40AM +0300, haim [howard] roman wrote:
> The addresses used below are fictictious.  But we really have a class
> B address that is subnetted into class C subnets.
> 
> My station's main IP is 130.130.1.66 (subnet 1).  That interface is always up.
> 
> Sometimes, I bring up the 2nd interface at 130.130.2.66 (subnet 2).  I
> also create routing table entries so packets to some subnets go via
> the subnet 2 interface.  
> 
> I suspect that when that happens, sometimes the packet goes out the
> subnet 2 interface, but the source address in the IP packet is the
> subnet 1 address.
> 
> Any suggestions for how to check that?  Someone suggested to me
> tcpdump.  Is there a better and/or easier way?

I do not know, but tcpdump is quite easy. You can use ethereal, which
is graphical and maybe more comfortable.

> 
> More importantly, if I'm correct, how do I change it?  I running 
> 
>     Distribution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 
>                   (Taroon Update 2)
> 
>     Linux Kernel: 2.4.21-15.EL #1

You need to change this per application, as far as I know. E.g. the
option '-b' in openssh.
-- 
Didi


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