source IP|interface

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Philipp Buehler wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I stumbled across that it seems not to be possible to 
> define the source-IP|interface wihch the sshclient uses.
> [like ping -I eth1 on linux or similar] ..

No as yet, though you are not the first to ask.

> Any workaround? I have some weird ipsec setup and need to define
> source addresses..

A quick workaround may be to use a ProxyCommand (see ssh manpage)
which does a bind() to a specified IP address before connecting.

Regards,
Damien Miller

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