Yes, I found I can use 'ip route replace' command to change the 'src' address as workaround. Julian also responded in another thread that He could come up with a patch to sort ip with scope, primary, secondary preferences.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/27/482 Vincent On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:59 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Vincent Li <vincent.mc...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:09:48 -0700 > >> the reason for this patch is that we have a multi blade cluster platform >> sharing 'floating management ip' and also that each blade has its own >> management ip on the management interface, so whichever blade in the >> cluster becomes primary blade, the 'floating mangaement ip' follows it, >> and we want any of our traffic originated from the primary blade source from >> the 'floating management ip' for consistency. but in this case, since the >> local >> blade management ip is always the primary ip on the mangaement interface and >> 'floating management ip' is always secondary, kernel always choose the >> primary >> ip as source ip address. thus we would like to add the flexibility in kernel >> to >> allow us to specify which ip to be primary or secondary. > > You have the flexibility already. > > You can specify a specific source address ot use in routes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
