Secondary IP (eth0:0) acts like main server IP

Posted by George Tasioulis on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by George Tasioulis
Published on 2012-08-28T22:27:25Z Indexed on 2012/08/29 3:40 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 466

Filed under:
|
|
|

I have a CentOS server, configured with 4 consecutive IPs:
eth0 5.x.x.251
eth0:0 5.x.x.252
eth0:1 5.x.x.253
eth0:2 5.x.x.254

The problem is that all traffic goes out to the internet with eth0:0 (5.x.x.252) as the source IP, instead of eth0.
# curl ifconfig.me
5.x.x.252

How can I fix this, so that all traffic goes out via eth0, ie my main IP?

PS: My server is VPS running on a Xen dom0, the latter being configured in routed mode networking.

Thanks in advance!

Server configuration

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:x:x:x:x:AE  
          inet addr:5.x.x.251  Bcast:5.x.x.255  Mask:255.255.255.255
          inet6 addr: fe80::x:x:x:x/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:14675569 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9463227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:4122016502 (3.8 GiB)  TX bytes:25959110751 (24.1 GiB)
          Interrupt:23 

eth0:0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:x:x:x:x:AE   
          inet addr:5.x.x.252  Bcast:5.x.x.255  Mask:255.255.255.224
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:23 

eth0:1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:x:x:x:x:AE  
          inet addr:5.x.x.253  Bcast:5.x.x.255  Mask:255.255.255.224
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:23 

eth0:2    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:x:x:x:x:AE  
          inet addr:5.x.x.254  Bcast:5.x.x.255  Mask:255.255.255.224
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:23  

# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
5.x.x.251       [fqdn] [hostname]

# cat ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=5.x.x.251
NETMASK=255.255.255.224
SCOPE="peer 5.x.y.82"

# cat ifcfg-eth0:0
DEVICE=eth0:0
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=5.x.x.252
NETMASK=255.255.255.224

# cat route-eth0 
ADDRESS0=0.0.0.0
NETMASK0=0.0.0.0
GATEWAY0=5.x.y.82

# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
5.x.y.82        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0 eth0
5.x.x.224       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.224 U         0 0          0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0         5.x.y.82        0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

© Server Fault or respective owner

Related posts about linux

Related posts about networking