NIC Selection

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 30.04.2004 schrieb Timothy J. Miller um 17:05:

> When a system has 2 network cards that are on the same network,
> how does FC1 select which NIC to use?  By that I mean, Mozilla starts up,
> what causes it to use one card, say eth1 over eth0?  Anyone know?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim

Given that you did not have created any specific routes for each device
or created iptables source routing, then the kernel chooses the card
with the lowest IP.

Alexander


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