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Specify specific interface for snapmirror replication

allblacknz
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Hi there,

I was wondering how I go about specifying what interface snapmirror has to use?

The replication link (1Gb dedicated) should go over interface destination_filer-rep and source_filer-rep

The hostname is in the destination_filer and source_filer format

On my source I specify in /etc/snapmirror.allow:

destination_filer-rep

On my destination I specify in /etc/snapmirror.allow:

source_filer-rep

On my destination under snapmirror.conf I have

source_filer-rep:vol1 destination_filer-rep:vol1 ,restart=always 15 * * 1,2,3,4,5

When I do an initialize with snapmirror initialize -S source_filer-rep:vol1 destination_filer-rep:vol1 I get an error

saying

Illegal destination filer specification: destination_filer-rep.
Destination filer, if specified, must match the local host: destination_filer

I can get snapmirror to go over the hostname interfaces but obviously we want to make use of dedicated link.
We don't have a need for multipath at this stage

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