multihomed box

[JM]

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 8:08 pm, James Knott wrote:
> JM wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 	I have a linux with 1 NIC card with 5 IPs
> >
> > 	eth0, eth0:0, etc..
> >
> > 	a client gave us an API that connects to a server w/c uses eth0's IP. 
> > Im wondering if I can use eth0:0's IP when it connects to the server...
>
> If the server is configured for muliple IPs, it should respond no matter
> what address is used.

they have a firewall and we only want to publish the eth0:0's IP, running the 
API they gave us ( the API will be used to connect to their server ) uses 
eth0's IP, is there a way to tell linux to use eth0:0 when ever we want to 
connect to a specific IP?

tia,


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