[hobbit] testing remote hosts with different source address

[Geoff Hallford]

Not the same but couldn't you just use different routes on the Hobbit box to
get it to go out different interfaces? i.e. 192.168.1.1 to gw of interface1
IP, and 192.168.2.1 to gw of interface2 IP

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Lorenzo Chiavacci
<lchiavacci at netartis.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I am using Hobbitmon 4.2 and I would like to set up a system with
> multiple IP addresses on network interface so that I can perform test to
> some hosts through an IP address and other tests through another IP
> address, and  so  on with multiple address aliases.
>
> The hobbitping has a --source option but bbtest-net does not.
>
> I have thought of using the LOCATION tag in  bb-hosts and have multiple
> instances of bbtest-net in hobbitlaunch.cfg but I do not find a way to
> have packets exit from the system with a different source address for
> all TCP tests as well as ping.
>
> Has anyone ever done such a setup?
>
> thank you.
> Lorenzo Chiavacci
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