Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:49:01 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to control address used by INADDR_ANY? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020419154705.035aba50@nospam.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <3CC088D4.F21A3656@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020419144005.0358c610@nospam.lariat.org>
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At 03:15 PM 4/19/2002, Terry Lambert wrote: >INADDR_ANY means "I don't care". FreeBSD's "I don't care" is a >bit different in implementation than Cisco's "I don't care". 8-(. I think it really means, "I don't care, but I want it to work!" ;-) I don't think, for example, that the stack would pick an address from an interface that was not up, or from a loopback interface (more in my other message about this). So, maybe what's needed is a "don't choose this one" flag.... --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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