Re: IP-aliases, sporadically changing src address for outbound traffic

[Henrik Heil <hhml@zweipol.net>]

Michael Loftis wrote:
> --On February 28, 2006 9:09:08 PM +0100 Henrik Heil <hhml@zweipol.net> 
> wrote:
>
>
> > Now I'm a bit puzzled if
> > a) this is normal/known
> > b) ip route ... src ... will fix it (hard to test)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Henrik
>
>
> The way to prevent this is for aliases to be netmask 255.255.255.255 w/o 
> a gateway.

Thanks a lot, it works -- and (as always) I don't know why I didn't 
think of this before.

Out of curiosity -- what is the reason that one of the IPs (.213, the 
last in /etc/network/interfaces) was chosen that often when I had all 
aliases (mis)configured with the same netmask/gateway?

Regards,
Henrik

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