[CentOS] Outbound connections not using primary eth0 IP

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008, Bill Campbell wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 04, 2008, nate wrote:
>>Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>>
>>> Any ideas why this is happening?
>>
>>Try looking at this?
>>http://www.clintoneast.com/articles/multihomed.php
>>
>>In general I try to make sure my systems only have 1 default
>>gateway, makes life a lot easier. Leave the multi homing to
>>the routers(or my preference layer 3 switches).
>
>It's worth noting that some software allows one to specify the outgoing IP
>(e.g. using inet_interfaces in postfix or sourceaddress with innd).

Whoops.  That is smtp_bind_address for postfix, not inet_interfaces.

Bill
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