RE: howto set a source ip address?

On Tue Feb 06 02:21:50 CET 2007 Mark Matthews <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > From: Fabian Bieker [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 5:34 AM
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> > Subject: howto set a source ip address?
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> > Hi,
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> > Is it possible to tell to connector/j to use a specific source address
> > for its database conection?
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> > I googled and looked into the ml archive but was unable to find an
> > answer...
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> > Thanks for your help,
> > 
> > Fabian Bieker
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> Fabian,
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> At this time, Connector/J does not support this feature. The Java socket API
> itself makes this rather cumbersome to do, in that one has to specify not
> only the source address, but a source port at the same time, so of course
> one would have collisions with other connections on the same local address.
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> Is there a reason your routing doesn't take care of this for you?
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> -Mark
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You can possibly give a portnr of 0 (the ANY port). The socket wil get a random port.

Ronald.