From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 23 17:36:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from c1717606-a.sprgfld1.mo.home.com (c1717606-a.sprgfld1.mo.home.com [65.6.246.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2C737B401 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by c1717606-a.sprgfld1.mo.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9O0atR14908 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:36:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15wC2R-0004gF-00 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:36:55 -0500 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silly problem has me stumped References: <871yjunfn5.fsf@pooh.int> <20011023200351.A69785@tp.databus.com> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 23 Oct 2001 19:36:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20011023200351.A69785@tp.databus.com> Message-ID: <87vgh5naag.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 2001-10-24T00:03:51Z, Barney Wolff writes: > 1. You don't need the public address configured on the same nic as the > private - packets to the public address will be accepted even if they come > in via the outside nic. I will occasionally need to connect *out* from gw1 for SSH, whois, DNS, etc. In that event, the packets need a public source address. > 2. Both ping and traceroute offer options to set the source addr. rtfm. I already RTFM, and TFM doesn't say a thing about how to do what I want, except for command line options of specific clients, which doesn't solve my problem. -- Kirk Strauser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message