>>>>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:36:48 -0400, Ivan Adzhubey said:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble with my dual-NIC servers: it seems there is no way to
> force bacula client on a remote server use a particular fixed
> interface/address for data transfers. Even though I have set FDAddress to a
> preferred one in bacula-fd.conf on the client, it will still bind to a wrong
> interface to do the actual file data transfer. The problem is, the unwanted
> interfaces are the ones on external 100Mbit/s network which is much slower
> than a dedicated Gigabit private LAN which I want bacula-fd to use. I noticed
> this problem while doing full backup of a large file tree, which was spooling
> at ca. 10Mbyte/s instead of expected 100Mbyte/s. I then confirmed it by
> looking at the output of lsof command on the remote client during initial
> spooling phase (running only bacula-fd):
>
> # lsof -n |grep bacula|grep IPv4
> bacula-fd 16145 root 3u IPv4 115553 TCP
> 192.168.0.253:bacula-fd (LISTEN)
>
> bacula-fd 16145 root 4u IPv4 115584
> TCP 192.168.0.253:bacula-fd->192.168.0.200:33119 (ESTABLISHED)
>
> bacula-fd 16145 root 5u IPv4 115585
> TCP x.x.x.227:43711->x.x.x.136:bacula-sd (ESTABLISHED)
>
> where x.x.x.227 is client's external NIC address, x.x.x.136 is bacula
> server's
> external address; 192.168.0.{253,200} are the corresponding private
> addresses. As you can see, while fd daemon on client has indeed been bound to
> the private address, it still uses external one for communicating with sd
> daemon on the remote bacula server. I've been through all configuration
> options to no avail. Unfortunately, binding sd on the server to private net
> only is not an option since it also has numerous other clients configured,
> that are only accessible via external net (desktop boxes all around the
> building, etc). Is there any solution? I am running bacula 1.36.1.
The FD is told to connect to the "Address" from the Director's Storage
resource, so maybe you can set that to something that resolves to the internal
network on the dual-NIC clients?
__Martin
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