On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:36:25 +0100 Tommaso Calosi <tcalosi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my setup: > > eth0:1 192.168.1.10/24 > eth0:2 192.168.1.20/24 > eth0:3 192.168.1.30/24 > > gateway 192.168.1.1 > > I know it's a strange question but it's crucial to do this in my setup. > I need to balance traffic between these virtual interfaces so that the > gateway sees the traffic originating from 1.10, 1.20, and 1.30. Is it > possible Virtual interfaces are a leftover BSD artifact. They do not have any real state of their own. Virtual interfaces all map to the same underlying network device object. There is no reason to use them in Linux since version 2.4. Is the traffic originating locally on multiple sockets, or is it being passed through? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html