Hi,
We have a deamon that needs to connect to a server. The server however
is kind of picky: You are ALSO supposed to use a specific source port
number!
Linux box server
IP: 10.11.12.13 <------> IP: 10.11.12.101
port: 33811 port: 33811
This is all fine. Next thing you know, you want two of those deamons
talking to that one server. Now the shit hits the fan, as those two
connections are going to have all 4 identifying parameters (src IP,
src port, dst IP, dst port) the same.
As the server is "hardware" and already in the field, we can't really
change anything there. So a workaround would be to configure two IP
addresses on the Linux box, and bind to two different IPs on the linux
box:
Linux box server
IP: 10.11.12.13
port: 33811 <---\
\---> IP: 10.11.12.101
/---> port: 33811
IP: 10.11.12.14 <---/
port: 33811
This should be possible. It seems to work on 2.2.15, however, the
2.3.99 kernels give an "EINVAL" error on the "bind" (or was it the
"connect") call.
All this is UDP.
Roger.
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