How to set the sourceaddress for all checks?

Hari Sekhon hpsekhon at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 14 16:48:42 CEST 2007


Indeed this is down to the OS, but you can use the routing tables on the 
host to determine which interface is used to connect to what.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Marc Powell wrote:
>   
>> -----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.
>
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> Marc
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