Multiple NICs + Applications

spartan263 · 09-02-2004, 03:08 PM

Hi,

I am on a laptop with multiple NICs and connections active/configured. How do I control which connection a given application uses? The only application that I know of that supports this is ping, but I would like to generalize this if possible.

My specific problem is that I have a VPN client that gets confused over which connection to tunnel over, which is significant in my case. Also, firefox et al. try to connect over a inactive connection when another NIC is active.

Any help appreciated,
George

arno · 09-03-2004, 02:41 PM

this is an example: If you want to connect to 130.10.130.1 and use the tunnel 192.168.0.2 connected by eth1

route add -net 130.10.130.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 gateway 192.168.0.2 eth1