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RE: Client binding to a specific local address

To: 'Quanah Gibson-Mount' <quanah@symas.com>, "'openldap-technical@openldap.org'" <openldap-technical@openldap.org>
Subject: RE: Client binding to a specific local address
From: Daniel Le <daniel.le@exfo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:38:50 +0000
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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.

Daniel

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From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah@symas.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 11:56 AM
To: Daniel Le <daniel.le@exfo.com>; 'openldap-technical@openldap.org' <openldap-technical@openldap.org>
Subject: Re: Client binding to a specific local address

--On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 8:05 PM +0000 Daniel Le <daniel.le@exfo.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there an API to bind client to a local IP address? If not, how best 
> to directly handle a BER socket for such purpose? The reason is to 
> direct traffic to go through a specific interface of a host that has 
> multiple NICs. There is no option in ldap_set_option() for address 
> binding. I found the thread "listener question" from the OpenLDAP 
> Technical archives which asked a similar question, but not exactly the same.

Use the IP address as the URI, like -H ldap://1.2.3.4:389

--quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Architect
Symas Corporation
Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP:
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- Re: Client binding to a specific local address
  - From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>

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