Java Application that we are currently using, read the IP information via using sigar library(sigar.getNetInterfaceConfig()

when we use the sigar.getNetInterfaceConfig(), it brings Primary Network Interface from the

server, and this is the problem for us.

we are using Centos server now and connected with 2 of network which are eth0, eth1.

we need to gather the IP from etho0, however in sigar, it brings the ip from eth1.

It seems that primary IP of current server set as eth1.

Therefore, we were looking for answer to modify primary IP at Centos, but could not find yet.

We really want to know how to modify or set up primary IP at Centos.

Thanks for reading such a long story from us.

Regards,

Kihong, Ko

ps. i used CentOS6

In windows i configure the metric...in linux may be you can try this... http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rfaces-591796/

As an alternative, you might find out how the java application is getting the IP number...

My bet is that it is using the host name, and by default, that host name is usually associated with the first network connection, and like many applications, this one doesn't look for two IP numbers.

If this is the case, just put the host name on the second network connection as an alias.

Another note: if this IS the case, the metric values will not make any difference.

Where I worked we did this as normal practice:

hostname-eth0 - internal admin network
hostname-eth1 - external public access network

And then made "hostname" be an alias for hostname-eth1.

Doing this in the /etc/hosts file made it easy to change addressing on the fly - only the service needs to be restarted, and depending on how the service works, may not even need that.