Hi everyone, I am using camel KAFKA inside Apache KARAF and producing messages to the KAFKA server. I have multiple interfaces configured in my system and sending(producing) messages will happen only by using the first interface *managmentserver1_local_interface* always. Same thing i tried with camel-ftp in which i can choose the network interface by using the name "*managmentserver1_traffic_interface*" and binding through the *bindAddress* api which is introduced after 2.23. Is there any way to configure the camel kafka component to select network interfaces? Currently my machine has 2 network interfaces.
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4192.198.10.1 testserver1 managementserver1_local_interface192.199.11.2 testserver1 managementserver1_traffic_interface I Went through the source code of kafka and found that internally it is creating a socket which is used for transferring which will provide the option to bind the source address. private void configureSocketChannel(SocketChannel socketChannel, int sendBufferSize, int receiveBufferSize) throws IOException { socketChannel.configureBlocking(false); Socket socket = socketChannel.socket(); socket.setKeepAlive(true); if (sendBufferSize != Selectable.USE_DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE) socket.setSendBufferSize(sendBufferSize); if (receiveBufferSize != Selectable.USE_DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE) socket.setReceiveBufferSize(receiveBufferSize); socket.setTcpNoDelay(true); } Note: There is an option to choose the network interface in camel-ftp through an attribute bindAddress which allows us to bind the source addressees(in case of multiple interfaces). We are using camel 2.25.2 Because we are planning to handle the traffic only through traffic interface and oam activities through only management server local interface. Also adding a route in OS level will help but adding a route will have the below complexities. - It will affect other functionalities as OAM will have to route it to the configured one and proceed further. This will introduce a hop in-between the source and destination. - We are packaging the camel karaf inside the KARAF container which doesn't have the permission to modify the routes from KARAF. The reason I am asking in the KAFKA forum is because CAMEL is packaging the apache-kafka clients inside camel. Thanks, M Shriram.