[omniORB] Binding omniORB to a specific address

[Sylvain Gault]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 01:15:56AM +0200, Sylvain Gault wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 08:39:55PM +0200, Sylvain Gault wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > In my platform, there are several interfaces that can access the same
> > network.
> > Namely, ib0:1 with an address in 10.0.0.0/8 and ib0 with address an
> > address in 172.18.0.0/16.
> > The routing is done so that ib0:1 is routed through ib0.
> > However, although the destination addresse is also in 10.0.0.0/8,
> > omniORB prefer to use ib0 directly to reach the other node.
> > Is there a way to bind omniORB to a specific address or interface so
> > that the source address of the messages would be in 10.0.0.0/8?
> > 
> > This is important because I'm planing to put some bandwidth restriction
> > on ib0:1 instead of ib0 directly. This would allow me to run several
> > processes on the same node with several ib0:X interfaces.
> 
> Additional information:
> This is also required since I'm trying to simulate a star network with a
> limited bandwidth on the router. And the packets gets routed through the
> router only if their destination address is in the network 10.0.0.0/8.
> Which means that currently, when host A connect to host B, the source
> and destination addresses are in 172.18.0.0/16 and 10.0.0.0/8
> respectively. Thus, the response packets from host B do not go through
> the router. Which is quite bad.

Actually I've been able to do this by fixing my routes.

However, it could still be useful to bind CORBA to a specific address.


Regards,
Sylvain Gault