Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 17:51:23 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intelligent source IP's in multinet singlephysicalnet connections? Message-ID: <199612132251.RAA05759@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199612130038.TAA00340@papillon.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 12, 96 07:38:41 pm"
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> I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying here, but what I
> think you're saying is: when sending a local packet (i.e. a packet
> that originates on my machine), the source IP address should be the
> source IP address of the interface on which the packet leaves the
> machine. For example, assume you have two interfaces:
>
> ep0 192.168.0.1 (default)
> ep1 10.0.0.1 (for net 10)
>
> All locally generated packets which leave on ep0 will have the source
> address 192.168.0.1, and those which leave on ep1 will have the source
> address 10.0.0.1. Of course, if the packets are being routed, their
> source address remains unchanged.
>
> Does this answer your question? Is it what you want?
No. Only a single interface ed0, with multiple IP's aliased to it, otherwise
yes. I would assume that what you said should already be happening due to the
multiple interfaces?
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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