Controlling HTTP & SMTP IP flow for 3 NIC's
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 21:33:18 UTC 2008
Tim Alberts wrote:
>>>
>>> I have told sendmail to listen to the correct interfaces, but that
>>> apparently doesn't mean only write to those interfaces. I don't see
>>> how to control this by setting up my routes and I can only really
>>> think of ways to block it in IPtables, not re-route it.
>>
>> You probably used the DaemonPortOptions entry in sendmail.mc to
>> control the listening side. Do the same with ClientPortOptions for
>> outbound connections.
>>
>
>
> Boy it sure sounded like a solution. This may guarantee that sendmail
> sends on the specified IP interfaces. However I think the underlying
> linux routing is still the problem because the problem hasn't gone away.
>
Routing shouldn't affect a source IP. What does tcpdump say is being
used? Linux does do some strange stuff with addresses on the same
machine though so anything is possible here.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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