Kevin Keane wrote: > Inquiring minds want to know: why would you want to control the source > address? Doesn't the routing table automatically select the correct one > based on the destination address you want to reach? > > The OS is supposed to choose a "functional" address, which when paired with a routing entry, makes the destination reachable. However, in a multi-homed environment this may not choose the desired connection (does not account for bandwidth, latency, hops, etc). Few applications
There are also several situations in which the backup servers or clients may use additional IPs to establish network presence on a service-by-service basis (i.e. all bacula/backup traffic moves over one IP address, all web traffic over another IP address, all SSH/mgmnt over another address, etc etc). There was a big discussion about this some time ago which you may read: http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-us...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15640.htm http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-us...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15776.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
