eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:3E:74:30:8B
inet addr:10.65.7.160 Bcast:10.65.7.255 Mask:255.255.254.0
eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:3E:74:30:8B
inet addr:10.65.6.10 Bcast:10.65.7.255 Mask:255.255.254.0
The entries added by default in routing table would be as below.
10.65.6.0/23 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.65.7.160
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link
default via 10.65.7.254 dev eth0
The default route means that the ip address of eth0:1 is not used as source address while contacting any machines in the network from this machine. Now I want all outgoing connetions to a specific machine in the network to be initiated with the source address of eth0:1. How this can be achieved?
1 - Using the "route" command. (This configuration is not persistent on reboot)
# route add -host
Eg,
# route add -host 10.65.6.1 dev eth0:1
After running the above command, all connections to 10.65.6.1 should have the source address of eth0:1
2 - Through /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0:1 (This would be persistent on reboots). The tricky part comes in this configuration. Most people would add a line as below to this file which wouldn't give the expcted output.
Eg,
10.65.6.1/32 dev eth0:1
The above line would add a routing to 10.65.6.1 via eth0:1, but the source ip address used would be the ip of eth0, not eth0:1. This can be verified by running "ip route show" and netstat.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0:1 should have the below entry in it to use eth0:1's ip as source ip while contacting 10.65.6.1.
Eg,
10.65.6.1/32 dev eth0:1 src 10.65.6.10
How to verify this is working as expected?
From the system do "telnet 10.65.6.1 80" and check the output of "netstat -nalp | grep 80" on both source and destination machine. It should show the ip of eth0:1 as the source address.
