From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 19 14:49:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A0B337B422 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA08091; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:49:15 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook may make your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020419154705.035aba50@nospam.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@nospam.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:49:01 -0600 To: Terry Lambert From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: How to control address used by INADDR_ANY? Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3CC088D4.F21A3656@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020419144005.0358c610@nospam.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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