innfeed 'discover' and wish list
Todd Olson
tco2 at cornell.edu
Thu Apr 21 04:04:11 UTC 2005
Hi
'Discoveries'
1) So I have discovered that innfeed's 'bindaddress' only works in the global context,
not inside the peer block.
I now understand that the innfeed.conf man page actually says this.
(thanks to the man page writers for including this ... even though I failed to understand it)
2) changing the bindaddress and SIGHUP-ing innfeed does NOT cause innfeed
to switch interfaces. The only way to switch interfaces seems to be to
stop and restart innfeed.
The innfeed man page seems to claim the contrary
"If innfeed gets a SIGHUP signal, then it will reread the
config file. All values at global scope except for
``backlog-directory'' can be changed. [...]"
Wish list
a) I wish that changing the bindaddress and SIGHUP-ing did cause innfeed to change the
interface it used. This would make tweaking a configuration at migration time easier.
b) I wish that bindaddress worked on a per 'peer' basis because:
a) when you are trying to change the ip address you feed peers from
not all peers are willing/able to change what they accept on your schedule.
So being able to feed some peers from one address and others from another
address is very helpful
b) in an environment where bytes over the wire are counted and billed by interface
being able to feed different bytes out different interfaces makes it easier
to create a system that can be tuned to work with the imposed billing system.
Regards,
Todd Olson
Cornell University
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