Re: How to bind FTP to a specific address.

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're supposed to use routing for stuff like this.  Though, it'd really 
only be an issue (in a client app, anyway) if you have multiple IP 
addresses that can be used with the same route.

Personally, I'm a programmer.  If this were my problem, I'd scrap IBM's 
FTP client and write my own, and I'd just insert a call to the bind() 
API to bind it to the appropriate interface.

(Actually, I'd take FTPAPI and add an additional/optional parm that lets 
me specify the interface, then I'd include that in the next distro)

That's just me though -- I tend to use programming as a solution for my 
problems.  You could certainly achieve this via routing if you prefer.


rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> When I use the FTP client how do I tell that to bind to a specific 
> address?  Like, when I ftp FROM my i5 lpar to somewhere else how do I
> tell it to use the IP address for i5 stuff and not one of the ones
> I'd prefer be reserved for Domino?