ROUTING DATA PACKETS FROM A MULTIHOMED HOST

摘要

The invention allows routing data packets from a multihomed host. A default gateway is associated with each of network addresses associated with the multihomed host. One of the associated network addresses is assigned to a data packet to be sent from the multihomed host as its source address. A routing table of the multihomed host is searched for a route matching a destination address of the data packet. It is determined, in response to one of no route found and the found route being a default route of the routing table, which of the default gateways is associated with the assigned source address, and the data packet is dispatched to this determined default gateway.