Use eth1 for port 8081

x_terminat_or_3 · 04-04-2007, 03:07 PM

Hi all

I have a server box with two nics and I want to have all outbound packets on port 8081 go through eth1 and all the other through eth0.

Using ping, I can pass a device option to select the network device to be used, but when trying to make a connection with wget or so, there is no way to select the nic, so if I can route all outbound traffic for port 8081 through eth1, all will be ok for me.

Thanks

kcorupe · 04-04-2007, 04:03 PM

you could maybe use iptables to forward port 8081 requests using that nic,

but what is the reason you are trying to do this, be a little more specific on what your trying to accomplish, might be a better solution.

x_terminat_or_3 · 04-05-2007, 01:21 AM

I'd like to use iptables for this but don't know how to do that.

What I'm ultimately am trying to accomplish is this:

Use eth1 to detect external IP address, and use eth0 to update a file on a server.

kcorupe · 04-05-2007, 03:40 PM

your saying you want to turn your computer into a router?

x_terminat_or_3 · 04-06-2007, 04:36 AM

nope not at all, I want to use eth1 for one specific purpose, which is connecting to a host on port 8081.

and eth0 must handle all other traffic.