From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arthur van Leeuwen Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 18:54:43 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] ip route src Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 29 May 2002, Ciprian Niculescu wrote: > in LARTC at 4.2.1 Split access > > we have: ip route add $net dev $if src $ip > > i didn't understand what does the "src", if someone can explaint to me. The 'src' specifies which source address to choose in case a packet matching that routing rule does not have a source address yet. This may not seem useful, until you realise that all outgoing packets generated on the local machine don't have a source address when routing... Doei, Arthur. -- /\ / | arthurvl@sci.kun.nl | Work like you don't need the money /__\ / | A friend is someone with whom | Love like you have never been hurt / \/__ | you can dare to be yourself | Dance like there's nobody watching _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/