Zoltan -- There is no magic involved here. Your client only has one network port, that is the network that TSM will use. You can play all the aliasing games you want on the client side; TSM is going to see the connection on the 6.201 port and that is the network that will be used.
Once you get the second network installed you can use TCPNODEADDRESS or just set the client up to use the dns entry for the TSM server's 20.44 port as the server address. I have 4 networks to my tsm server: tsm (public); tsm-pri (private); tsm-bu1 (backup one); and tsm-bu2 (backup two). Some clients use tsm-bu1 as the server address; some use tsm-bu2; a few use tsm-pri; and a couple access tsm on the public network. Access on all of the nodes is by way of the dsm.sys definition. HTH Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server IP controls Recently, we have been reconfiguring/locking down a lot of the TCPIP ports in use by the TSM servers and clients, attempting to control/route TSM traffic across a private subnet versus the more heavily used public network. However, we have been having some TSM scheduler communications, due to port blocking issues. I am trying to figure out if/how the TSM server can be configured to control which of its 2-IP connections it uses to communicate with the clients. Here is my configuration: TSM AIX 5.2.1.3 server. 2-IP connections, 128.172.6.201 (primary/public) and 192.168.20.44 (private). The TSM client in question only has 1-IP connection, 128.172.6.177. The DSM.SYS (AIX) points to the server via DNS name that resolves to 192.168.20.44. My networking person says the traffic is flowing across the 6.201 connection, not the 20.44 private connection. How, if possible, can I get the TSM server to use the private 20.44 connection to perform the backups ? Is there some server setting that can control this ? We are trying to get another connection to the client, using the private subnet. Unfortunately, there aren't any available ports in the switch, at this time. Yes, I know that when I get the other port in the client, I can use the TCPNODEADDRESS options to control this.
