Multi-homed socket server?
Carsten Gaebler
cg at schlund.de
Wed Oct 25 17:18:29 EDT 2000
Joshua Muskovitz wrote:
>
> This is just a guess, so take it for what it is.
>
> When you bind with INADDR_ANY, you are saying that you don't care which
> address it binds to. But I don't think this means "accept connections from
> any network adapter". I think it means "select an adapter somehow, bind to
> it, and accept connections on it".
The ip man page says: "When INADDR_ANY is specified in the bind call the
socket will be bound to all local interfaces." So it should work.
cg.
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