Re: Fwd: Routing to and from an IP on an interface

[Petr Pisar <xpisar@fi.muni.cz>]

On 2007-03-13, Nathan @ Netdigix Systems <lists@netdigix.com> wrote:
> Hi I have an issue where the internal interface wants to always talk
> from the primary ip address,  what kind of rule can I add to make the
> traffic comming from a specific source ip leave the router interface
> from a specific secondary ip address?
>
Source IP address, if not specified by bind(2), depends on routing
table.

You can add rule which specifies source address explicitly like this:

ip route add default via <MY_GW> dev <OUT_DEV> src <SRC_IP>

Maybe, the dev part is optionable.

-- Petr