Re: How to bind FTP to a specific address.

Rob. I think you are going to need to use the Schowler Routes.

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Another common use of Schowler routes is to force local traffic out of a specific interface. Without Schowler routes, the system always uses the first *DIRECT route that it reads from the routing table and will use the local interface that is dynamically bound to that route when sending to a local system. Because *DIRECT routes are the highest precedence route, there is no way to configure the system to use a preferred interface. However, by creating Schowler routes, these *DIRECT routes become Indirect routes and, therefore, other routes (for example, host routes) can be configured to have higher precedence than these Schowler routes.
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Bryan

rob@xxxxxxxxx said the following on 7/26/2007 9:38 AM:

Yeah, the remote site expects it to come from a particular IP address.
I can "fix" one situation. When I ftp from one lpar to a lpar in the DMZ I can open up the exit point on the lpar in the dmz to accept the whole range of addresses served by this source lpar.
However the other situation requires I talk to the "consultant". Apparently certain bar code printers accept ftp commands. And these are locked down by the IP address they expect communications to come from.

Rob Berendt