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  3. May 2016

Multiple TCPIP Interfaces... how does the system choose which one to use?

Assume you have 2 TCPIP interfaces set up on your IBM i:

192.168.1.10
and
192.168.1.11

When a client application doesn't specifically bind to a specific TCPIP
interface, how does the system choose which one is used?

In this case a client said for years it would use the right one, but one
day it just "decided" to switch to the second interface causing problems
since only the first interface was set up by a firewall to allow outgoing
requests.

I have since explained to them how to set our software to specifically bind
to the correct IP, but this question got me wondering how the system
chooses which interface when there is no specific binding going on.

Thanks!

Brad
www.bvstools.com

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