Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:43:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:42:52 -0500 Received: from k7g317-2.kam.afb.lu.se ([130.235.57.218]:45061 "EHLO cheetah.psv.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:42:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:41:28 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Svensson To: Oliver Xymoron cc: Bill Davidsen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Default outgoing IP address? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > I have a host which has canonical address foo, which also happens to be a > gateway. Foo happens to be on the local side of the gateway, so when > initiating connections, they appear to be from the gateway interface > address, bar. This is inconvenient because bar is an address on a network > I don't have DNS authority over, etc., so it'd be nice if outgoing > connections by default would appear to come from foo. This should do the trick, or something similar. It changes the default route to prefer another source address if none is set through a bind(2) call. ip route chg default via $DEF_GW dev $OUTSIDE_DEV src $MY_CANOICAL_SRC A variation of this (for a slightly different purpose) is used by me. Peter -- Peter Svensson ! Pgp key available by finger, fingerprint: ! 8A E9 20 98 C1 FF 43 E3 07 FD B9 0A 80 72 70 AF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Remember, Luke, your source will be with you... always... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/