From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: active interface?
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:27:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AD7B4F.8090105@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808211632.37656.janklodvan@gmail.com>
On 08/21/08 08:32, Jan Klod wrote:
> I have an unanswered question: how active interface is determined in
> Linux? I mean, interface, which is used by web / mail / ping
> (default) ?
It's not an ""interface per say. To the best of my knowledge what
happens is that your routing stack chooses the best route (gateway) to
send your request through. Once it has the route selected it will use
the interface facing said route as it's source IP unless a specific
source IP has already been chosen by the application.
Grant. . . .
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-15 9:55 VPN (interface) access for and all traffic through from single user -- how to do it? Jan Klod
2008-08-15 15:29 ` Grant Taylor
2008-08-15 16:14 ` Jan Klod
2008-08-15 16:28 ` Grant Taylor
2008-08-15 16:19 ` Jan Klod
[not found] ` <200808152212.59882.janklodvan@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <48A5F9E2.5080206@riverviewtech.net>
2008-08-16 20:47 ` Jan Klod
2008-08-17 4:30 ` Michael Alaimo
2008-08-17 5:01 ` Grant Taylor
2008-08-21 13:32 ` active interface? Jan Klod
2008-08-21 13:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-08-21 14:27 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2008-08-17 4:31 ` VPN (interface) access for and all traffic through from single user -- how to do it? Grant Taylor
2008-08-17 11:20 ` Jan Klod
2008-08-17 17:53 ` Grant Taylor
2008-08-22 20:40 ` Jan Klod
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