Re: Client binding to a specific local address

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>]

Ah I see. No such option at this time that I am aware of.

--Quanah

> On May 11, 2017, at 1:42 PM, Daniel Le <daniel.le@exfo.com> wrote:
> 
> Indeed, similarly to "telnet -b <client-local-address>" or Microsoft LDAP client API function ldap_set_option(LDAP_OPT_SOCKET_BIND_ADDRESSES...) and my system is a multi-homed host.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Ströder [mailto:michael@stroeder.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 4:26 PM
> To: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>; Daniel Le <daniel.le@exfo.com>; 'openldap-technical@openldap.org' <openldap-technical@openldap.org>
> Subject: Re: Client binding to a specific local address
> 
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> --On Thursday, May 11, 2017 6:38 PM +0000 Daniel Le <daniel.le@exfo.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the answer, however the -h <URI/URL> appears to be a server
>>> (slapd) option. I'm looking for the LDAP client side which uses OpenLDAP
>>> libldap and liblber libraries.
>> 
>> You may wish to more carefully read my response (Hint: -h and -H are not the same
>> thing).  You may also wish to refer to the man pages for client utilities such as
>> ldapsearch, (which use the LDAP client side API).
> 
> Maybe there's a misunderstanding:
> 
> As I read it Daniel asks for setting the client's *out-going* IP address, something like
> telnet -b <local-address>. Probably he's on a multi-homed host or has a more complicated
> IP configuration and has to use a specific out-going address for getting his packets
> accepted by the server.
> 
> Ciao, Michael.
>