Subject: Re: "default" outgoing address
To: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/05/1999 13:20:13
>
> > Sounds OK to me though I also like Paul Goyette's idea:
> >
> > sysctl -w net.inet.ip.<ifname>.srcaddr=NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN
>
> Unfortunatly you can't do that w/ sysctl. All the parts of the sysctl MIB
> need to be known at compile time - of sysctl!
>
Actually, the sysctl interface should/will be redesigned. Loading of
modules that can have sysctl-modifying functionality isn't possible
today because of this limitation.
-- Ragge