Hello, somehow I got into the situation that the ip address of the Host is secondary and a VServer gets the primary address: # ip addr ls ... 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff -> inet <vserver1-ip>/24 brd <brdcast-ip> scope global eth0 inet <vserver2-ip>24 brd <brdcast-ip> scope global secondary eth0 -> inet <host-ip>/24 brd <brdcast-ip> scope global secondary eth0 inet <vserver3-ip>/24 brd <brdcast-ip> scope global secondary eth0 ... ... 4: vlan71@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP link/ether 00:04:23:d6:b4:a8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet <vserver6-ip>/25 brd <brdcast2-ip> scope global vlan71 ... * I have the sysctl setting "net.ipv4.conf.all.promote_secondaries=1", so the host will not get offline when I shutdown vserver1. * The hostname of the host resolves to host-ip. Nethertheless, ssh connections from the host get vserver1-ip as its src address, obviously because vserver1-ip is the primary ip address of the eth0 interface. I can fix this by the BindAddress directive in ssh_config, but this is just a workaroud for ssh and I don't know whether other services will be affected, too. A much cleaner solution would be to "pin" the primary role to the host ip. Any idea how to achieve that and/or how to swap the primary and secondary role of the ip adresses in my current situation? Thanks, Thomas