[wellylug] Sending traffic to a virtual interface

[Cliff Pratt]

michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:
> Cliff Pratt writes:
> 
>>I have a machine with interfaces eth0, eth0:0, eth0:1, etc. I want 
>>application A to use interface eth0:0 and not eth0 to communicate with 
>>IP address xx.yy.zz.ww. There's no way to configure the application 
> 
> itself to use a particular interface. Just the IP address.
> 
> The "ip" command is useful for this.  For example:
> 
>     ip route add to x.y.z.w/32 src a.b.c.d dev eth0
> 
> Or:
> 
>     ip route add to x.y.z.w via $router src a.b.c.d
> 
> Both should work, although ISTR that I used the second form more often...
>     -- michael.
> 
Thanks, this was what I needed. Worked OK first time, but in my testing 
with telnet I used the wrong port number. Duh! THAT caused a bit of 
noggin scratching!!

Cheers,

Cliff

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