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by **Tambaa Hap** » Sat, 20 Aug 2005 07:58:56

Anyone know of an ftp client or a way to write one in Perl that will send
data to another host using a specific network interface. I would like to
test the throughput of our backup network and hence would like to force the
client to use a specific network interface card.

This is on Solaris.

Thanks in advance,
TH

by **Darren Dunha** » Sat, 20 Aug 2005 08:30:03

Quote:> Anyone know of an ftp client or a way to write one in Perl that will send
> data to another host using a specific network interface. I would like to
> test the throughput of our backup network and hence would like to force the
> client to use a specific network interface card.

Are the two interfaces on the same sub-network? This is usually most
easily done by having the routing table correct on the host, then using
the desired interface on the remote machine as the host target.

How does the backup software select the correct interface?

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by **Thomas Krat** » Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:41:46

> Anyone know of an ftp client or a way to write one in Perl that will send
> data to another host using a specific network interface. I would like to
> test the throughput of our backup network and hence would like to force the
> client to use a specific network interface card.

> This is on Solaris.

Using Net::FTP, you can specify the interface in the call to the 'new'
contructor with the option 'LocalAddr' that will be passed on to
IO::Socket::INET. See the pod documentation for both modules.

Thomas

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ftp client to send data using a certain network interface

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ftp client to send data using a certain network interface

ftp client to send data using a certain network interface