On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:51:55PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <20070712163603.GA12582@janus> you wrote: > > a TCP connection is created originating from 172.17.2.93 instead of > > from 172.17.1.48 > > Well, this might be because you get a "magical" interface self route, check > for example "route -Cn". After some playing I see these: Source Destination Gateway Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 172.17.1.48 172.17.255.255 172.17.255.255 bl 0 0 4 eth0 172.17.1.48 172.17.255.255 172.17.255.255 bl 0 0 0 eth0 172.17.1.48 172.17.1.48 172.17.1.48 l 0 0 7 lo 172.17.1.48 172.17.1.48 172.17.1.48 l 0 0 3 lo 172.17.2.93 172.17.2.93 172.17.2.93 l 0 0 3 lo 172.17.2.93 172.17.2.93 172.17.2.93 l 0 0 1 lo 172.17.1.48 is primary, 172.17.2.93 is a secondary address. -- Frank - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html