I'm trying to get my server to make connections on different ethiernet
devices. In this case these are aliased devices. Anybody know how to
do that?

<whansen_at_corporate-image_dot_com [at] us.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to get my server to make connections on different ethiernet
> devices. In this case these are aliased devices. Anybody know how to
> do that?

What type of traffic?

Are you trying to get your source address to appear from multiple addresses?

There's a big difference between multiple NIC's and aliased NIC's, so it
does make a difference.



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On Fri, 26 May 2006 20:14:06 +1200, "Tintin" <tintin [at] invalid.invalid>
wrote:

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><whansen_at_corporate-image_dot_com [at] us.com> wrote in message
>news:83lc72h9saass4dgvpitbd2m5mrrur4lnc [at] 4ax.com...
>> I'm trying to get my server to make connections on different ethiernet
>> devices. In this case these are aliased devices. Anybody know how to
>> do that?
>
>What type of traffic?
>
>Are you trying to get your source address to appear from multiple addresses?

yes

>There's a big difference between multiple NIC's and aliased NIC's, so it
>does make a difference.

The current system has aliased NICs each with a sepearte IP address.

I guess I'm looking for a way to bind stock http requests to a
specific aliased NIC or IP address.

whansen_at_corporate-image_dot_com [at] us.com wrote:

> I guess I'm looking for a way to bind stock http requests to a
> specific aliased NIC or IP address.

perldoc Net::HTTP
$s = Net::HTTP->new( %options )
The "Net::HTTP" constructor method takes the same options as "IO::Socket::INET"

perldoc IO::Socket::INET
In addition to the key-value pairs accepted by IO::Socket, "IO::Socket::INET" provides.
LocalAddr Local host bind address hostname[:port]