How to set the sourceaddress for all checks?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] 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.

--
Marc

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