In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Randall R. Stewart (home) " writes: >>>On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, 12:07+0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>>>Simple question: >>>> >>>>Very simple UDP server daemon. >>>> >>>>Many clients (connect(2)'ing a socket for each is not an option) >>>> >>>>Multihomed machine. >>>> >>>>What's the simple trick to replying with the same source-IP as the >>>>client used as destination-IP ? >> >>I'm considering ways to make sendmsg(2)/recvmsg(2) DTRT, and my >>current candidate is give them a flag bit which says "msg_name has >>both addresses". Following the code it seems that it is in fact possible to do with sendmsg(2)/recvmsg(2) already, and my test shows that at least the receive side works. I challenge anybody to point out where this is mentioned in the docs, and once people give up I'll tell how to do it :-) >Poul: > >One of the problems I think that is fundamental to BSD and >multi-homing is the lack of supports for multiple-default routes. I agree. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
