RE: Selecting an ethernet line

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:08 05/09/2003, Chris Bipes wrote:
> Yes you can bind to a specific IP address.  What I would do is create a
> virtual IP address on your AS400.  Just like adding a physical with a couple
> of parameters changed.  Then on your default router add the two physical IP
> addresses as routes to the Virtual IP address, which must be in it's own
> subnet.
>
> For example with both Ethernets in the same subnet:
> Eth01 = 10.0.0.1 / 255.255.255.0
> Eth02 = 10.0.0.2 / 255.255.255.0
> VirtIP= 10.254.254.1 / 255.255.255.255
>
> Route 1 = 10.254.254.1 255.255.255.255 10.0.0.1 metric 1
> Route 2 = 10.254.254.1 255.255.255.255 10.0.0.2 metric 2
>
> <snip>

> d dsServerAddr    ds
> d  sin_family                    5i 0 inz
> d  sin_port                      5u 0 inz
> d  sin_addr                     10i 0 inz
> d  sin_zero                      8a   inz
>  * Bind server IP & port to socket descriptor
> c                   eval      sin_port        = s_ports
> c                   eval      sin_family      = AF_INET
> c                   eval      sin_addr        = INetAddr(*VirtualIP*)
> <-retrieved using DNS query
> c                   eval      sin_zero        = X'0000000000000000'
> c                   eval      iServiceAddrLen = %size(dsServerAddr)
> c                   eval      iRC = Bind( iListeningSocket
> c                                       : %addr(dsServerAddr)
> c                                       : iServiceAddrLen     )

Chris,

What is "*VirtualIP*" is that the host name that resolves to 10.254.254.1?


Pete Hall
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