[Samba] try to bind samba traffic to specific interface - without success

[Jan]

Bjørn Tore Sund schrieb:
> Jan wrote:
>> Hey Bjørn,
> Hey Jan,
>
> If you bottom-quote and edit when you respond to me, it becomes that 
> much easier to reply _in_ your email and address specifics there.
Alright! The next time, i will do so :)
>>
>> the traffic isn't send by a different subnet ...
>>
>> eth1 = 192.168.0.100 ( default route via 192.168.0.150 )
>>
>> eth2 = 192.168.0.200
>>
>> both interfaces belonging to the same net (255.255.255.0) ...
>>
> Then you don't have a Samba issue, you have discovered what happens 
> when you give a Linux box multiple interfaces on the same subnet.  The 
> IP stack implementation is good for a number of things, but gives 
> interesting results in just such instances.  
> http://pontus.ullgren.com/view/Multiple_interfaces_on_the_same_subnet 
> looks like it describes how to solve it using iproute2, other 
> solutions may be better.  
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=6676 gives a 
> brief runtroügh of the problem, Google may give you more - I didn't 
> spend much time finding references.
>
> I stopped giving Linux boxes two interfaces on the same subnet a long 
> time ago. :)
That hurts so much but you're right and your explanation about the IP 
stack implementation was one of the things i didn't thought about.
Sometimes the team spirit work wonders thanks for that :)
>
>> eth2 is not configurated with an default route. could this be the 
>> failure? (i don't think so because the route for the default gateway 
>> was set for eth1 only by /etc/conf.d/net)
> You can only have one default route out of a computer.  You can, 
> however, use iproute2 to configure it to always respond to traffic 
> through the interface it was contacted on, and lots of other 
> interesting things.  Highly recommended to look into.
Yes i used it in the past but really? i don't knew what i was working on.
I started working with linux (especially gentoo) about 3 years ago but 
there will be
more things then samba breaking my neck.
>>
>> output of route table:
>>
>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    
>> Use  Iface
>>
>> 192.168.0.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0    U     0      0        
>> 0  eth1
>>
>> 192.168.0.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0    U     0      0        
>> 0  eth2
>>
>> 127.0.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0        U     0      0        
>> 0  lo
>>
>> 0.0.0.0        192.168.0.150  0.0.0.0           UG    0      0        
>> 0  eth1
>>
>> i hope that could bring some light on this situation ...
> The situation is nicely illuminated, yes. :)
>
> Bjørn
>
I love gentoo and the majority of the linux faction. thanks for your help


best regards
Jan