On 5 Oct 2006 at 14:12, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 14:01, Dan Langille wrote:
> > On 5 Oct 2006 at 12:34, James Ray wrote:
> >
> > > Jonas Björklund wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, James Ray wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> All,
> > > >> I am wanting the communications from bacula to come out of the
> > > >> same IP
> > > >> address I have DirAddress set as in the Director {} resource. This is
> > > >> not the default system address.
> > > >>
> > > >> I have just tried to do this with IPTables and source NATing but due to
> > > >> a bug in the Fedora Kernel (or what seems to be) I get a panic ;(
> > > >>
> > > >> Any ideas other than me writing a quick patch to do it?
> > > >
> > > > On the director resource you can use DirAddresses.
> > > > On the client resource you can use FDAddresses.
> > > > On the storage resource you can use SDAddresses.
> > >
> > > This specifies listening addresses rather than bind addresses for out
> > > going communications doesn't it? Or have I misunderstood the meaning of
> > > these options?
> >
> > I said "the documentation does say listen". I was wrong. From
> > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Client_Fi_daemon_Configura.html:
> >
> > FDAddress = <IP-Address> This record is optional, and if it is
> > specified, it will cause the File daemon server (for Director
> > connections) to **bind** to the specified IP-Address, which is either
> > a domain name or an IP address specified as a dotted quadruple. If
> > this record is not specified, the File daemon will **bind** to any
> > available address (the default).
> >
> > The documentation for FDAddresses (note plural) mentions listen.
> > FDPort also mentions listen.
>
> Well, I am a little confused. First, forgetting the technical programming
> (i.e. the C calls) points for a moment, aren't listen and bind the same
> thing? or is there some error in the manual?
I never thought that listen and bind differ. But thinking about it
now, one could interpret listen as this is where I listen, but not
necessarily where I initiate outgoing comms. Bind has the potential
for a different meaning.
I think the manual is correct.
> Second, James (perhaps his request was not properly formulated) wanted
> communications to "come out" of certain IP addresses -- this implies we are
> talking about a client, not the server. Note, all three daemons (DIR, FD,
> and SD) are both a client and a server depending on whom they are talking to
> so one needs to carefully specify what we are dealing with.
Yes, and I think FDAddress is what he wants.
>
> >
> > I think you want to use FDAddress. Here is what I used:
> >
> > FileDaemon {
> > Name = ngaio-fd
> > FDport = 9102
> > WorkingDirectory = /home/bacula/db
> > Pid Directory = /var/run
> > Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
> >
> > FDAddress = 192.168.0.68;
> > }
> >
> >
> > FYI:
> > # ifconfig fxp0
> > fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> > options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> > inet6 fe80::204:acff:fea3:703d%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> > inet 192.168.0.67 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> > inet 192.168.0.68 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.0.68
> > ether 00:04:ac:a3:70:3d
> > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> > status: active
> >
> > I then ran this while running a status command:
> >
> > # tcpdump -i fxp0 host 192.168.0.67 and not host 192.168.0.99
> >
> > where 192.168.0.99 is the host I'm ssh'ing from...
> >
> > No comms were captured.
> >
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> >
> >
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