[Gllug] Linux Source Address selection

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:35:49PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Indeed. Note that this lets you explicitly force the source address via
> > 'ip route src ADDRESS'.
> 
> Is that not a preference that is being set, rather than an override?  I
> believe that if I had an interface with two ip addresses on the same
> subnet and I did "ping -I" from the non-preferred address, it would
> ignore the preference.  I think it would do this if I had an application
> configured to listen on the non-preferred address.

But it's a while since I had a reason to test that, so I'm prepared to
be wrong.


-- 
Bruce

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