[hobbit] testing remote hosts with different source address

[Josh Luthman]

Now that is really cool. Thank you!

On 1/19/09, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> In <496E5D56.80400 at netartis.com> Lorenzo Chiavacci <lchiavacci at netartis.com>
> writes:
>
>>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.
>
> It's not in the current version, but I do have code for this in
> the current development version. There is a patch available at
> http://henrik.hswn.dk/srcaddr.patch - this should apply to the 4.2.2
> version:
>   - save the file to /tmp/srcaddr.patch
>   - cd xymon-4.2.2
>   - patch -p0 < /tmp/srcaddr.patch
>   - make
>   - cp bbnet/bbtest-net ~xymon/server/bin/
>
> With this patch, you can specify the source address using "@IP"
> in the test-spec in bb-hosts. E.g.
>
>   10.0.0.1   myhost   # ftp at 172.16.1.1 ssh
>
> will cause the ftp-test to run with a source-address of 172.16.1.1
>
> It doesn't support specifying the source for http/https tests.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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