On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 11:07, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 11:03, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > I understand the concept, but have not heard of anyone, not even a > > rumor, that anyone has ever made use of such a service. You are correct > > about wanting Internet access and having a router that doles out the > > DHCP is pretty much the default. > > > > If anyone has used this or even knows the brother of a friend who may > > have used it once let us know. I personally think this one was dead > > before arrival. > > I agree. The internet works because responsibilities are delegated > in a precise, hierarchical manner and wouldn't have a chance if > every machine guessed at an address that might work. And if anyone > is listening that might fix this, please also add a straightforward > way to control the source address used for outbound connections when > a machine is given multiple addresses on the same subnet for virtual > hosting. > > --- > Les Mikesell > les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > if your system has several IP addresses added as aliases on a single interface/subnet, the routing table will provide the 'source' addresses for outgoing communications. if for example you have 4 IP addresses assigned as follows eth0 192.168.2.1 eth0:1 192.168.2.2 eth0:2 192.168.2.3 eth0:3 192.168.2.4 Then the routing table will work as: 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 the source will be 192.168.2.1 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0:1 the source will be 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0:2 the source will be 192.168.2.3 etc.
