samba - Nov 2015 - AD: Replication on different network interface than standard traffic

Hi all,

Is it possible to force replication traffic between AD DCs on a different
interface than the one used for normal traffic?

Kindly regards,

mathias

Hello Mathias,

Am 13.11.2015 um 11:41 schrieb mathias dufresne:
> Is it possible to force replication traffic between AD DCs on a different
> interface than the one used for normal traffic?
Do you mean, you want to access the shares on your DC e. g. via eth0 and
let the DCs do directory replication via eth1?

I don't see a way to configure that and I haven't heard yet, that this
is possible with Windows DCs. What should be a reasonable use case for
such a setup?


Regards,
Marc

2015-11-14 15:46 GMT+01:00 Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org>:
> Hello Mathias,
>
> Am 13.11.2015 um 11:41 schrieb mathias dufresne:
> > Is it possible to force replication traffic between AD DCs on a
different
> > interface than the one used for normal traffic?
>
> Do you mean, you want to access the shares on your DC e. g. via eth0 and
> let the DCs do directory replication via eth1?
>
Exactly.

>
> I don't see a way to configure that and I haven't heard yet, that
this
> is possible with Windows DCs.

That's what I expected.

> What should be a reasonable use case for
> such a setup?
>
The company I'm working for has a network dedicated to traffic between
servers. They'd like the replication uses that network rather than the one
used to authenticate users (of course this authentication network is also
used by others applications/services).

As I'm still waiting for a real test platform I have no real idea about
amount of bandwith consumed by replication, that's also why they asked for
moving this traffic elsewhere. I hope replication won't need too much
bandwith, which seems the case (I never saw a DC consuming more than
130kB/s).

Cheers,

mathias

>
> Regards,
> Marc
>