Re: incorrect source address for local TCP connections?

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On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:21:53PM +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> 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

But I think this is a symptom rather than the cause. It is from a cache
after all. I tried flushing routes + adding various src= routes to both
devices but the problem persists: apparently the src= is ignored for
traffic to a secondary IP address of the same box.

-- 
Frank
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