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LT2000's avatar
LT2000
Level 4
12 years ago

bptestbpcd not showing expected results

running NB 6.5.6, with a Solaris 10 master and Linux media servers. We recently had an issue communicating to several clients on a backup network. The linux media server is connected to 4 networks,...
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  • mph999's avatar
    mph999
    12 years ago

    However, it gets way more complex, and I'm not going to try and explain it, when we have perfectly good technotes ...

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO60779

    As you will see, the network used is a combination of the order the network interfaces are detected when the system boots, and what the OS routing tables are.

    You will also see that there is a PREFERRED_NETWORK setting also.

    You may be aware of 'REQUIRED_INTERFACE'  this should NOT be used if PREFERRED_NETWORK is available, and I think it is at 6.5.6

    Martin

     

revarooo's avatar
revarooo
Level 6
12 years ago

REQUIRED_INTERFACE is perfectly acceptable IF you want don't want your NetBackup traffic using other network interfaces AT ALL.

But I agree with mph999, if you are not to bothered and just need the backups done, PREFERRED_NETWORK is more suitable in that instance.