perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Ty Bell <>]

Hi Aaron,

On a host with dual NICs, if I don’t set -B (that is if I want to only use 
eth1 for testing purposes), it’s defaulting to sending control traffic from 
eth0.

--Ty

> On Mar 10, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Aaron Brown 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Hey Ty,
> 
> There’s a test attribute “local_address” that will set the local address to 
> use. I don’t think it uses the -B, but it’ll do:
> 
> bwctl -s [local_address] -c [remote address]
> bwctl -c [local address] -s [remote address]
> 
> instead of
> 
> bwctl -c [remote address]
> bwctl -s [remote address]
> 
> Which should (?) be the same thing, depending on what you're doing I guess.
> 
> A side effect of this is that you can have a central regular testing 
> instance do bwctl tests with two remote bwctl endpoints. e.g.
> 
>> <test>
>>     local_address      chic-pt1.es.net
>>     ….
>> </test>
>> <test>
>>     local_address      star-pt1.es.net
>>     ….
>> </test>
>> …
> 
> However, that’s somewhat lightly tested at this point :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Aaron
> 
>> On Mar 10, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Ty Bell 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Is there a way to force bwctl to use ‘-B|—local_address’ in your 
>> regular_testing.conf?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ty
>

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