On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:40:09PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > Then the next step would be to cycle thru all the IP addresses I guess
> > (ie: if you have a eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2, eth0:3, ... eth0:N, have the
> > plugins use all the interfaces).
>
> Are there benefits in using multiple source addresses? Would it be
> possible to make the set of available interfaces/aliases limited by
> user input?
Apart from working around obviously broken network configurations (see
the begining of this thread), it may allow the test of hosts which are
configured to block all the traffic coming from rogue hosts (think of
things like portsentry and all), as the checks would establish a
connection from different source IP addresses (and this is mostly why I
find it interesting to implement it).
-- Renaud
