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Ident and virtual interfaces
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Wouters)
Tue Aug 27 13:26:52 1996
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:44:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I have a machine that has a few virtual ethernet interfaces, using
IP_ALIAS. My problem is that ident (RFC 1413) states that the ident
request must come from the same IP# as the connection you are asking
about. However, if I want to know information about a connection to my
virtual interface, I am stuck. Since my outgoing ident request uses the
physicial ethernet's IP number it differs from the connection I am asking
informaiton about (the virtual interface's IP number).
Is there any solution for this, or is ident something I really can't use
anymore ?
Paul
