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Date:      Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:22:12 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to control address used by INADDR_ANY?
Message-ID:  <20020420122212.A27415@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020420111258.021d7270@nospam.lariat.org>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 11:20:43AM -0600
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020419144005.0358c610@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020419144005.0358c610@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020420004621.02379880@nospam.lariat.org> <3CC1245C.EEE4ADE@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020420111258.021d7270@nospam.lariat.org>

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On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 11:20:43AM -0600 I heard the voice of
Brett Glass, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> >My previous suggestion was to make the routable IP address
> >the source address by making it the canonical IP address
> >for the interface, rather than one of the aliases, which
> >should have resulted in it being used as the source address.
> 
> The question is, what routable IP address should that be? 
> The address of one of the internal interfaces? An address
> from one of the internal subnets that's not assigned to
> an interface? I'm confused.

The same routable address you have on its internal interface, with a /32
netmask, and then the default route pointed out the interface.



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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)     |    fullermd@over-yonder.net
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      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"

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