Hello,
On 3/8/2006 11:57 PM, Helmut Raubenheimer wrote:
In bacula user's manual (page 96) I read: "The second change was to
add a new Client resource that defines matou-fd and has the correct
address, but in real life, you may need a fully qualified machine
address or an IP address."
I assume it should read: "... but in real life, you will need ...".
Well since IP addresses are generated by dhcp I won't be able to code
the IP addresses, so I will have to use the socalled machine address.
What is it? Is it a MAC address? Or something else?
I think ths is just unclear language (if at all). Machine Address is
probably used as a synonim to Address, and the important thing is the
difference between IP address and FQDN and unqualified domain name.
To me "fully qualified machine address" means the FQDN eg.
myxpbox.example.com
Don't know if there is another (better) solution out there ...
I would recommend either
to use Dynamic dns and specifiy the clients by their fqdn.
or
instruct the dhcp-server to always assign the same ip to the clients
based on the mac-address. Most routers are able to do this.
If your wlan-router is not able to do so, think about using dhcpd on the
fedora-box and disable dhcp on the router.
or
use static ip on both clients.
One other solution, although it requires special setup of th clients, is
to use the setip console command. Basically, it allows a client to
update the DIRs address information.
It requires setup of a console (can be tightly restricted) on the
client, and of course the necessary command must be run before a backup.
I do use "setip" when I connect laptops that normally are in a WLAN by
cable to the network and their (fixed) DHCP-leased address is not yet
expired, so they get a dynamic IP.
I once considered a setup where a client computer, when connected to the
network, would use a script to call bconsole to first issue a setip
command and then start a backup, but never implemented that.
Arno
Kind regards
Helmut
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