Hello John The REQUIRED_INTERFACE option in bp.conf/registry might be what you are after
A route through eth2 for contacting your backup server might be an option Regards Michael 2011/3/18 Crowey <netbackup-fo...@backupcentral.com> > Gidday, I'm trying to troubleshoot some really bad performance issues when > writing to disc for NetBackup differentials, and as part of that process I > noticed that NetBackup is not using the backup NIC I have configured on our > main server. > > Our main server has two NICs configured, eth0 on 172.20.10.23 and eth2 on > 172.20.10.24. In DNS I have eth0's address resolving to server, and eth2's > address resolving to server-backup. > > I have NetBackup configured to connect to the address server-backup. And > in the Admin Console | Host Properties | Clients I can connect to the server > - ostensibly via the configured DNS address of server-backup. > > I can ping both addresses on the Master/Media NetBackup server as well as > the server itself. However if I do a ifconfig eth0/2 on the server in > question I get this ... > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:0D:82:92 > inet addr:172.20.10.23 Bcast:172.20.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::214:4fff:fe0d:8292/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:126134922 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:249411328 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:46698652928 (43.4 GiB) TX bytes:289231929457 (269.3 > GiB) > Base address:0x8800 Memory:85b80000-85ba0000 > > eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:0D:7E:FA > inet addr:172.20.10.24 Bcast:172.20.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::214:4fff:fe0d:7efa/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:197097 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:92088745 (87.8 MiB) TX bytes:782 (782.0 b) > Base address:0xc800 Memory:b3d80000-b3da0000 > > Clearly eth2 (server-backup) is receiving OK, but nothing is going back > out. > > Any ideas what I can do to resolve this? - I'm sure its probably something > stupid, but I'd be grateful for any advice on this matter. > > (I'm running RHEL AS 4.6 x86_64 by the way) > > Cheers > John > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by jcr...@marketforce.com.au via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu >
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