[RADIATOR] Radiator and Load Balancer

[Robert Blayzor]

This may be the case now, but pretty sure we went down this road YEARS ago and even with BindAddress, packets were still being sourced from the main IP address. In the mailing list archives this argument may exist. I vaguely remember being told by Hugh that it was not possible in Perl at the time to choose the source address to respond from.

Again, not arguing that now; just saying what we ran into in the past.

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> On Jul 29, 2016, at 6:17 AM, Heikki Vatiainen <hvn at open.com.au> wrote:
> 
> When BindAddress is configured, a socket is created and bound for each 
> address defined by BindAddress. In this case the source address of a 
> reply is the specific non-wildcard address the socket was bound to.
> 
> In short: BindAddress can be useful on multi homed hosts. However, if IP 
> addresses are added and removed dynamically, this can cause problems 
> because the addresses are now part of the Radiator configuration too.