On 11/05/2014 12:30 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > This is a bit of an unusual setup though. Normally on a host which has both > "internal" and "internet" interfaces you would hardcode the address of the > internal one. Agreed, its sort of odd.
Its an instrumentation polling machine, which runs periodic ssh connections to remote stations and grabs a boatload of data, reduces it and stores the juicy bits on a local database. The internal net is all dhcp in almost every installation where this runs. The easiest expedient would be to swap wires, but explaining that to the customer is kind of embarrassing and its one of those things that you sit down to write the documentation, and realize its just too dumb to write down. ;-)
