Hi On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:38 PM David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1/10/19 7:25 AM, David Herrmann wrote: > > This introduces a new generic SOL_SOCKET-level socket option called > > SO_BINDTOIF. It behaves similar to SO_BINDTODEVICE, but takes a network > > interface index as argument, rather than the network interface name. > > SO_BINDTOIF is not very descriptive related to SO_BINDTODEVICE. > > SO_BINDTOINDEX, SO_BINDTODEVINDEX or SO_BINDTODEVIDX would be clearer > about this option versus SO_BINDTODEVICE.
I am open for these suggestions. I don't particularly have any preference on the names, but I agree that BINDTOIF is not very easy to read. For v2 I will pick SO_BINDTOIFINDEX (as suggested by Roopa), unless there are any objections. Thanks! David
