Re: SO_BINDTODEVICE

2020-08-02 Thread orgads
Do you have a reliable source about it being deprecated? I couldn't find any. A comment on stackoverflow claims the opposite[1]. Would you consider accepting a patch for supporting it (we can rebase the original patch and restart the discussion)? [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1215424/764870 Po

Re: SO_BINDTODEVICE

2016-05-10 Thread Ted Lemon
SO_BINDTODEVICE was originally put in to allow the DHCP server to tell on which interface a packet had arrived. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be used the way you describe, but I am under the impression that it is somewhat deprecated, and that may be why there was no action on

SO_BINDTODEVICE

2016-05-10 Thread Danomi Czaski
My device has multiple interfaces and supports dynamic ips. SO_BINDTODEVICE looks like it would be used to specify a device in the listen statement instead of having to update every IP change. I see someone submitted a patch years ago that wasn't accepted and there was no follow on. Is ther