Re: Slightly OT: Setting the primary NIC
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:20:06AM +0100, Sven Riedel wrote:
> I'm struggeling with a problem on a multi-homed host running debian, and
Well, it's not actually multi-homed. I'll bet both of your
NIC's are contained inside the same ASN and that they aren't even
running BGP ;-)
> Anyway, the Host has an internal NIC and an external NIC (acting among
> other things as a firewall). For some reason, all services think the
> external NIC is the primary, and will try to bind to that/all requests
> from samba/cups etc have a source IP from the external NIC, which
> complicates the setups of the internal hosts.
Many daemons have config statements for binding to
particular ports. You'll have to set them up on a
case by case basis.
Most of them will bind by default to all ip's defined
for the host.
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