If I understand correctly, your scenario is something like (I'm making up the IP addresses, so don't read anything into them based on what you have sent previously):
Machine A - bacula director Primary IP - x.x.x.10 Bacula IP - x.x.x.11 Machine B - bacula fd Primary IP - x.x.x.20 WWW IP - x.x.x.21 SMTP IP - x.x.x.22 Bacula IP - x.x.x.23 Machine C - bacula sd Primary IP - x.x.x.30 Bacula IP - x.x.x.31 And the problem you have is that when the bacula director talks to machine B and C, the source IP is .10, instead of .11, and when B contacts the sd on C, the source IP is .30 instead of .31. It is possible to control this from an application point of view, but then you restrict yourself a bit. If A was multihomed then you need to know which interface the connection is going out on, especially if one interface is NAT-ed (eg because something on the outside probably isn't going to know what to do with a source address on the inside). It might be more desirable to control this using routing as someone else suggested, eg: On machine A: ip route add x.x.x.23/32 dev eth0 src x.x.x.11 ip route add x.x.x.31/32 dev eth0 src x.x.x.11 On machine B: ip route add x.x.x.11/32 dev eth0 src x.x.x.23 ip route add x.x.x.31/32 dev eth0 src x.x.x.23 On machine B: ip route add x.x.x.11/32 dev eth0 src x.x.x.31 ip route add x.x.x.23/32 dev eth0 src x.x.x.31 Of course if you are using the .11, .23, or .31 addresses for something else then you would need to do it at an application level afterall. I haven't tested this exact situation, but I do use the src parameter to ip regularly hth James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
