multihomed box

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:31:14AM +0800, JM wrote:
> 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?

The simple solution is to assign the IP you actually want to use to
eth0, and move eth0's ip to eth0:0 instead.

Len Sorensen
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