Thanks for the clarification. Hopefully I won't be doing that in the future but it is always good to have ideas on how to make it work if I do.
Jeff On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:13 PM, A Darren Dunham <ddun...@taos.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 04:45:12PM -0700, Jeff Cleverley wrote: > > Are you modifying the routing tables on the clients? > > Nope. > > > When used to do it with Data Protector/Omniback we found was that the > master > > server on subnet A did route using network B to a subnet B client. The > > problem was that the client looked at who the server was and got a subnet > A > > IP address back. That sent all the data from the client through the > > router. We basically had to create a media server name on the master > that > > was on subnet B. Then the clients backed up through the correct subnet. > > > > It seemed like when we tried to do this with Veritas (probably 5.1) it > had > > the same behavior. > > That shouldn't happen. The Server should start the TCP connections from > the correct interface. In fact this problem would happen if interface A > were listed as "required network interface" for the server. > > One thing you can do on the clients to at least notice if this is > happening is to give the server interfaces explicit names, and only > authorize the name on the correct subnet for that client. > > So for your server you might have names "server-A" and "server-B". On > client B, only put "server-B" in the authorized servers list. If > "server-A" did try to contact it, it wouldn't respond, and if "server-B" > contacts it (as is correct), it will have a direct route to that > address. > > -- > Darren > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > -- Jeff Cleverley Unix Systems Administrator 4380 Ziegler Road Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 970-288-4611
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