Hi,

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:20:54PM +0200, Richard Braun wrote:

> /dev/net/tcp/123 is OK. /dev/eth0/tcp/321 isn't. As I said, you must
> consider TCP as a global layer, otherwise you will run into name space
> conflict problems. For example, a socket in listen mode on INADDR_ANY
> is bound to no interface, or all interfaces (at your choice).

Well, that's why we suggested having both /net/eth0/tcp and /net/tcp,
using the former when listening on an individual interface, and the
latter when listening on all. Do you think there are cases where this
approach would pose problems?

-antrik-


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