Oops, it fell off the list ;-)
Anyway. it seems to be halfway correct at most, now that I have read Graham's answer. Peter On Monday 05 April 2004 19:05, Peter Marschall wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday 05 April 2004 18:05, Safford, Brian wrote: > > I obviously didn't explain myself very well ... > > > > I know how to connect TO an LDAP host ... I need to specify which IP > > address will be used to make that connection. I have multiple ethernet > > interfaces on my server, and due to some firewall restrictions > > downstream, I need to specify a particular local IP address with which to > > do the TCP bind. > > Are you talking about he IP of the server or the IP of the client you want > to have set to a fixed value. > > If it is the server's IP (the machine the LDAP server runs on) then connect > to that IP in the Net::LDAP->new() call and you are done. > > If you talk about the client IP (the machine you run your perl-ldap script > on) I do not know of a way to set the IP address in perl-ldap. > > IMHO setting this IP is not the job of perl-ldap but part of the routing > configuration in your IP stack (on your client) > > If you want to connect from your client to the server using one source IP > for the LDAP protocol and another one for e.g. HTTP this will not work. The > applications on your client share one IP stack that takes the routing > decisions based upon the target IP independently of the target port. > > Peter -- Peter Marschall eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
