On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Hey all, > > So, I have a machine with a number of aliases on eth0. Thus, the machine > answers on multiple IP addresses, provided by eth0, eth0:0, etc. > > Only trouble is, I want connections *from* the machine to go out via eth0 > (and thus its IP address) only. That's easy enough for things like postfix, > where I can just set the smtp_bind_address. > > It's far harder with web browsers, ssh clients, etc. > > How do I get the machine to default to using eth0 and its IP address for > outgoing connections?
Ah. I can answer this one. :) I am assuming that your problems occur because the IP adresses are in the same subnet. Answer: Get rid of the eth0 aliases and put them on the dummy interface instead. :) The Dummy interface (dummy0, etc) doesn't get routed out because it doesn't go anywhere. Before aliases, this was the only way of doing things, but back then not routing was a problem, not a solution. :) -- Jessica Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
