Hi,
 
If I have a Silicon Mechanics server with two NICs connected to different 
networks. When I send a packet to a remote host, it goes through my routing 
tables and sends the message out the correct interface with it's corresponding 
IP address as the source IP. Every now and then I see some packets go out on 
that same interface but with the IP address assigned to the other interface as 
the source IP.
 
My question is, how does the OS choose what IP address to use as the source IP? 
I thought that it was going to go through the routing tables, choose the 
interface and then put the IP associated with that interface as the source, but 
it looks like it is not always doing that. Any ideas?
 
Thanks,
 
Luis Emilio Fernandez de Jáuregui
Sr. MSS GSM/UMTS Lab Infrastructure
Nortel
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Telephone (972) 684 1472 / ESN 444 1472
Fax (972) 684 3715
 
 

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