[Veritas-bu] To set the listening ip address

Hello!

I should have mentioned the clients are both windows and some different unixes, 
so a unix-only solution is not applicable.

However, I got a reply from another guy regarding this question and he did not 
send a copy to the list, so I quote his recommendation here:

You have to use the REQUIRED_INTERFACE = (NIC host name) in the client's 
bp.conf and use that client name in the policy. 
Dan O

I have not tested this myself though.

Regards
/blåberg


-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Kingery [mailto:larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com] 
Sent: den 10 oktober 2004 21:02
To: Jonas Blåberg
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] To set the listening ip address


> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to set the ip address on which the Netbackup client is 
> = listening, so it is not available on all ip networks connected to 
> the = client?
> 

The client process, bpcd, is normally run from xinetd/inetd, so you could 
restrict access there.  You can also run bpcd as a standalone process, and it 
looks like you can restrict it there.  From the bpcd man page, NBU 5.1:

  -restrict_if host_or_ip
         Available only on UNIX clients and implies -standalone. Spec-
         ifies the local network interface that bpcd will accept  con-
         nections  from.   Default  is  to accept connections from all
         local network interfaces.  You can specify either a host name
         or an IP address.



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