Setting default address for box with multiple IP addresses

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 20.07.2004 schrieb Bryan White um 17:47:

> 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

5 default routes? Does no harm but is a sign of misconfiguration. Don't
set the GATEWAY in each ifcfg-ethX config file but globally in
/etc/sysconfig/network.

> 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.

The routing is destination based.

> Bryan White, ArcaMax Inc.

Alexander


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