Multihomed weirdness

Joel Dudley joel@silverw.com
Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:02:53 -0700


Have an Idea.  The private NIC did not have it's default gateway available.
However, why would a HTTP request prefer to go through the private NIC.
Maybe I dont know as much about TCP/IP and bindings as I thought I did.

- Joel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Buettner" <kev@primenet.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: Multihomed weirdness


> On Jun 13,  2:47pm, Joel Dudley wrote:
>
> > Got a good one here.  Installed a second NIC in my server so it
> > could access the local network and all of a sudden a cybercash cgi
> > script that simply calls a an HTTPS URL from a config file is unable
> > to connect.  If I remove the second private NIC the connection works
> > fine.  Do I have some routing issues here or something?  This is
> > driving me nuts because I am sure there is something obvious I am
> > missing.
>
> Post the output of "netstat -rn" and indicate to us which interface
> goes to your local network and which interface goes to the outside
> world.
>
> Kevin
>
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