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Date:      Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:36:00 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to control address used by INADDR_ANY?
Message-ID:  <3CC22590.2EEDE1F1@mindspring.com>
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> <20020420122212.A27415@over-yonder.net>

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"Matthew D. Fuller" wrote:
> 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.

Yes.  Exactly.  Why are we having to repeat ourselves?

-- Terry

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