Source Address

xinu · August 18, 2006, 5:23pm

Is it possible to set the source address for poling devices, my nic has serveral ip’s and I need to set the source ip.

Thanks

xinu · August 23, 2006, 12:38pm

Am I overlooking the setting or is there no way to set the source address that the dude polls from?

uldis · August 23, 2006, 12:45pm

currently there is no way how to do that.

xinu · August 25, 2006, 12:34am

Thanks for the response, I look forward to that in a future release.

rmichael · June 3, 2010, 7:47am

Can I choose which interface or source address Dude server will poll from? Or, this is still not implemented?

I have a PC with vmware virual nic, wifi and 3 ethernet ports and would really like to pick which one Dude will use…

fbsdmon · January 15, 2012, 6:12pm

Has anyone found a solution to this? Is there a way to choose the source i-face/ip for the pooler?

I am running The Dude on a MikroTik Device which has many ip addresses, one for each ipsec tunnel. This is a nightmare, as dude uses the source ip of each tunnel for pooling from the lan behind that tunnel!

rpetrik · March 2, 2012, 10:48pm

I had had the same problem and solved it by adding firewall src-nat rule changing all source addresses to one of those addresses.
My confiuration:

/ip firewall nat add action=src-nat chain=srcnat disabled=no dst-port=161 protocol=udp src-address-list=local to-addresses=172.20.0.1

fbsdmon · March 17, 2012, 9:47pm

Well, I moved to a windows box, so this is resolved

Btw, I could not do source routing nor nat-ing as my dude was running on a mikrotik device and the problem was that it was using the ip’s form my ipip tunnel interfaces to monitor things behind that ipip iface. Changing the route would have disconnected everything behind that tun.