Selecting NIC ip address for ignition gateway

Don't use IP addresses. Use DNS names. Arrange for DNS to resolve to the production network for clients on that side of the Ignition gateway, and to resolve to the internet connection's IP address for that side. Put the DNS name into the public HTTP address setting on the gateway.

Ignition itself generally lets the machine's OS select what NIC really gets used for any particular traffic. (There are overrides in some device drivers for special cases.)

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