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Subject: Re: IP aliases and forcing outbound IP
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On Monday 07 March 2005 19:52, patrick wrote:
> Should I assume by the lack of replies that this just isn't possible
> under FreeBSD? Seems like it should be doable.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>
> Patrick
>
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:04:37 -0800, patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a FreeBSD 4.11 box whose ethernet card has several IP address.
> >
> >         inet 10.0.1.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255
> >         inet 10.0.1.111 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 10.0.1.111
> >
> > Is there a way I can cause outbound connections to certain hosts to be
> > from 10.0.1.111 instead of the default 10.0.1.254? I used to be able
> > to do this fairly easy in Linux because each alias is actually a
> > separate ethernet device (eg. eth0:0, eth0:1, etc.), but I haven't
> > figured out how to do this in FreeBSD.
> >
> > Patrick

Swapping the addresses over in rc.conf might make 10.0.1.254 the default. I 
don't really know though.

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