From: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com, Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] ipv4: how to choose src ip?
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 07:56:31 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212060756.31469.bhards@bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1021205152058.18105A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 07:37, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > I'm not interested in rewriting the source address with netfilter based
> > on destination and/or service; What I'm looking for is rather a way to
> > initiate two connections to the same destination host using the two
> > different source IP addresses.
>
> The simple answer is that if you need a specific IP address
> associated with a "multi-honed" host, that has only one interface,
> then something is broken. And you get to keep the pieces.
There are some reasons why you might like to use a specific address on a
machine that is multi-homed, although normally the logic in the kernel works
fine. I won't try to explain it in detail at this stage, but link-local is a
personal favourite.
Probably all you want is to use the SO_BINDTODEVICE socket option.
Brad
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-05 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-05 19:00 Tomas Szepe
2002-12-05 20:37 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-12-05 20:56 ` Brad Hards [this message]
2002-12-05 21:38 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-12-06 4:25 ` Ben Greear
2002-12-06 9:06 ` Andrew McGregor
2002-12-06 15:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-12-05 20:58 ` Willy Tarreau
2002-12-05 21:39 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-12-06 15:27 ` Mark Frazer
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