https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Bind-forwarder-to-particular-IP/m-p/71355#M180829 <P>For binding the listening service, you should use this: <A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/BindSplunktoanIP" rel="nofollow">http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/BindSplunktoanIP</A></P> <P>For controlling the path taken by the forwarding service, I believe Splunk will just use the OS level networking, so you would implement that with a static route (e.g., the linux <A href="http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl8_route.htm" rel="nofollow">route</A> command).</P> <P>Does that answer your question?</P> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:52:02 GMT David 2011-03-31T03:52:02Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Bind-forwarder-to-particular-IP/m-p/71354#M180828 <P>Hey everyone. I am trying to bind the forwarding service to a particular IP because one of the boxes we are using as a source is multihomed. First, is this possible? Second, how would I go about doing it? The hosts in question run on both Solaris and Linux.</P> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:08:17 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Bind-forwarder-to-particular-IP/m-p/71354#M180828 msarro 2011-03-31T03:08:17Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Bind-forwarder-to-particular-IP/m-p/71355#M180829 <P>For binding the listening service, you should use this: <A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/BindSplunktoanIP" rel="nofollow">http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/BindSplunktoanIP</A></P> <P>For controlling the path taken by the forwarding service, I believe Splunk will just use the OS level networking, so you would implement that with a static route (e.g., the linux <A href="http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl8_route.htm" rel="nofollow">route</A> command).</P> <P>Does that answer your question?</P> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:52:02 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Bind-forwarder-to-particular-IP/m-p/71355#M180829 David 2011-03-31T03:52:02Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Bind-forwarder-to-particular-IP/m-p/71356#M180830 <P>I'm going to have to try it out, I'll let you know! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:20:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Bind-forwarder-to-particular-IP/m-p/71356#M180830 msarro 2011-03-31T22:20:15Z