> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Silver > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to set the sourceaddress for all checks? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > >> Ingo Lantschner > >> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:31 AM > >> To: nagios-users nagios-users > >> Subject: [Nagios-users] How to set the sourceaddress for all checks? > >> > >> Hi, > >> if I am running Nagios on a host with more than one IP address on > >> the same physical network (trough aliases like eth0:1): Can I set the > >> IP-source-address used for running the network-related-checks in one > >> point? If yes, where please :-) > > > > You cannot. Your OS's TCP stack determines what source IP to use; the > > base IP on the interface used to reach the destination network. > > Actually, some versions of ping do allow you to set the source address. > The version in iputils package allows you to set the IP via -I <address > or interface name>. I don't have a machine I can test the exact > situation described, but I believe it will work as desired.
That's nice but that doesn't help with the network based nagios-plugins any, which was the OP's goal. I didn't say it was impossible to do at all, just not with the standard nagios plugins. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
