Re: Specifying interface for iperf
Thanks for the note.
> Chris,
> I posted a few months back with the same kind of problem -- doing
> multicast testing using clients/servers with multiple network
> interface cards...
>
> As an immediate fix for you, you should set up a static route on your
> server machine so that the kernel knows to send the join requests
> to the
> proper interface. (Otherwise it just picks the first one on the list,
> which in your case is probably the "other one.")
>
> Something like this should work:
>
> route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 255.225.0.0 -dev eth1
>
> then any multicast address 224.0.*.* would be "bound" to eth1.
...
Nope, that didn't seem to do it. <shrug>
Search the archives for a posting from me on this
> topic to
> get more details.
A fine idea. If I could find the archives. I poked around http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ without any success. Searching for "mailing list" and "archive" didn't help, either.