From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 20 10:22:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6986737B423 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id E65DFFC5; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:22:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:22:12 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to control address used by INADDR_ANY? Message-ID: <20020420122212.A27415@over-yonder.net> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5-fullermd.1i 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 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message