Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 19:17:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Kuri <jaykuri@oneway.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Question about Routing, and IP 'source' on Multi-IP machine. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960615191142.15840C-100000@oneway.com> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960615192601.15983A@oneway.com> In-Reply-To: <9606160004.AA27005@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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> > If I am actually using the gateway machine, The IP of the PPP tun0
> > interface is shown as the source of all connections.
> Not true. The IP address chosen, unless explicitly overridden by
> software, is the address OF THE INTERFACE USED to reach the
> destination.
Ok, all of my connections to the outside world (via the tun0 interface)
from the gateway machine. =)
> > Is there any way to make this the IP of the Ethernet interface?
> Break your software so that it does a bind(2) first to select a
> different address.
Ok, short of recompiling all of my software with a hard-coded sockaddr
and bind(2), is there any way to do this? No is an acceptable answer.
Thanks,
Jay Kuri
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