Hi, the outbound address is determined from the routing on OS level. Fix your routes and the outgoing address is ok also.
If this is not possible, you can resort to NAT (network address translation). This solution is used very widely. regards, R. Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 14:56 schrieb Panos Konstantinidis: > Hello Tim, thank you for your prompt reply. > > Your solution would work, however we are using a third party API that does > this call to the specific server (actually what it is doing is to issue an > HTTP request to another Servlet), and I do not have access to the source > code, nor I would like to decompile the API and modify the source code. > > Any other alternatives? > > Regards > > Panos > > --- Tim Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Its not a tomcat setting, it java socket programming. > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/Socket.html#Socket(java.ne >t.InetAddress,%20int,%20java.net.InetAddress,%20int) > > > Whatever library is making the outbound call should have an option to > > choose the local ip address the connection is bound to. If it doesn't, > > then you are SOL. > > > > -Tim > > > > Panos Konstantinidis wrote: > > > Hello, we have a computer that is registered to two IP addresses. I > > > have installed Tomcat on this computer and I have deployed a web > > > application. > > > > This > > > > > web application does some XML processing and then sends a request to > > > > another > > > > > server. This other server is configured to only accept requests from a > > > > specific > > > > > IP address. Unfortunatelly this IP address is not the one Tocmat is > > > bind to when an outgoing request leaves. My question is how I can make > > > Tomcat to > > > > tie a > > > > > specific request to otehr IP address, the one that is allowed to > > > connect to > > > > the > > > > > second server. All information I have found so far is only for incoming > > > requests (listening) not for outgoing. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
