Re: conducting TCP sessions with non-local IPs

From: Gregory Maxwell (greg@linuxpower.cx)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 17:05:51 EST


On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:30:58PM -0800, Bryan Rittmeyer wrote:
> Hello linux-kernel,
>
> Is there any way to conduct TCP sessions (IE have a userland process
> connect out, or accept connections) using non-local IPs? By "non-local"
> I just mean IPs that aren't assigned to an interface, but do fall into
> the network range of a running interface (so netmask, gateway, etc are
> "known").
>
> For example, I want to bring up an interface for 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
> and assign it IP 10.0.0.1 Then, I want a process to accept TCP
[snip]

/sbin/ip addr add 10.2.0.0/24 dev eth0

Tada
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