[Pkg-amule-devel] Bug#609181: Bug#609181: amule: Setting bind address should also set request source address

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Marc,

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 04:33, Marc Singer <elf at buici.com> wrote:
> On machines with more than one address, it is sometimes necessary to
> set the bind address for the local service ports.  This feature
> appears to work correctly.  However, this should also change the
> source address for requests to the servers such that the address used
> by the servers to connect back to the amule session is the address
> where the ports are bound.
>
> Consider the case where a host has a local and unroutable primary
> address on eth0.  By default, TCP requests from this host will be
> forwarded through a firewall and give NAT.  A second address which is
> routable is added to the host.  The amule bind address is set to the
> second routable address.  Yet when the application makes requests to
> the servers it will have the NAT address of the firewall instead of
> the routable address.
>
> Changing the source address for TCP connections as the bind address
> will correct this problem.

Could you please try to replicate this behaviour with v2.3.1~rc1-1
currently in experimental?

Regards,
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