Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 16:49:13 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intelligent outbound IP source Message-ID: <3207D9F9.41C67EA6@whistle.com> References: <199608062058.QAA02960@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Charles Henrich wrote: > > The situation, I have a machine that is part of two different networks on the > same interface (10.x and a class C), however, as the machine's primary IP > address is in the class C, outbound packets always originate on that IP. Would > it be too much to say if a packet is destined for a network that I have an > alias on, use the first alias as the source IP? This allows machines on both > networks to talk cleanly back to the server without having to have routes to > both networks on the remote hosts. I'm about to commit a small patch to make it more likely that you'll get the first address rather than the last.... julian
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