Dear Jim its depend on your default gateway you are using for yr machine check with route command on linux based systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.1.128 * 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0 eth1 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 that is showing it is using eth1 as default gateway to all other networks you can add default route with following commmadn route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth1 Regards UW --- Jim_Brouse/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > eth0 ip address is 24.0.0.2 > eth1 ip address is 55.0.0.2 > > > We have a squid server with 2 nics, if the DNS > server is at 55.0.0.5. > > How does the squid server know which nic to gain > Internet access from? > > Will it gain Internet access from the same nic that > the DNS server is > listed on? What stops squid from resolving > www.domain.com to an IP address > and then choosing either of the nics to get internet > access from. > > I only want squid to gain Internet access on eth1 > > > Jim > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree