[Razakel]

Because it's your main IP. If you want connections to look like they're coming from your failover IP, you'll need to do something like this:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source failover.ip.goes.here

[bob cat]

why does wget output the wrong ip inspite of me setting the ip to bind and the route entry?




root@vps43466:~# ip route show

default via 37.XXX.87.254 dev eth0
37.XXX.87.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 37.XXX.87.144
37.XXX.235.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 37.XXX.235.0
192.168.168.0/30 dev gre1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.168.1


root@vps43466:~# wget --bind-address=37.XXX.235.157 -qO- http://ipecho.net/plain ; echo

37.XXX.87.144


inside networking config -

post-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0:2 37.XXX.235.157 netmask 255.255.255.255 broadcast 37.XXX.235.157
post-down /sbin/ifconfig eth0:2 down


*.144 is the main ip
*.157 is a failover ip