Setting default address for box with multiple IP addresses

Bryan White bryan at arcamax.com
Tue Jul 20 15:47:12 UTC 2004


Andy Green wrote:

> I think the route app is responsible to show you the default routes and to set 
> them.  Just run route without args first to see what your situation is.

Here is the output of the route command:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway   Genmask         Flags Metric Ref  Use Iface
209.96.210.64   *         255.255.255.192 U     0      0      0 eth0
169.254.0.0     *         255.255.0.0     U     0      0      0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *         255.0.0.0       U     0      0      0 lo
default         jumpgate  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0      0 eth0
default         jumpgate  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0      0 eth0
default         jumpgate  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0      0 eth0
default         jumpgate  0.0.0.0         UG    1      0      0 eth0
default         jumpgate  0.0.0.0         UG    1      0      0 eth0

I don't see anything the the route command man page that suggests it has 
anything to do with selecting the default source address of a outbound 
connection.

-- 
Bryan White, ArcaMax Inc.





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