Subject: Re: routing
To: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 09/08/1997 01:32:29
On Sep 8,  4:27am, maximum entropy wrote:
} >From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca>
} >
} >     One feature of L*nux and some commercial routers, is that when
} >adding a route, you can specify what interface should be used.  I've
} 
} The route command accepts a flag "-interface", where instead of
} specifying a remote gateway to the destination, you specify the local
} address of an interface which will be used to transmit to the directly
} reachable destination.
} 
} Does that already do what you want, or am I missing something?

     Mulitple interfaces often have the same address, especially when
you have one LAN (ethernet) interface and a number of point-to-point
interfaces.  So, no that won't do the trick.

}-- End of excerpt from maximum entropy