Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:44:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gram@cdsec.com (Graham Wheeler) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New inetd.c Message-ID: <199810061844.LAA26434@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199810061522.RAA02887@cdsec.com> from "Graham Wheeler" at Oct 6, 98 05:22:23 pm
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Nice work with the signal fixes! > * a new argument, -X, has been added. If this argument is used, the > entries in inetd.conf (or whatever config file is used) are > expected to have an additional initial field, which is the > address to bind to. A value of `any' will be equivalent to > the normal behaviour of binding to INADDR_ANY. This provides > similar functionality to the normal -a argument, but with > a much finer granularity. It is intended for use in multi-homed > hosts which have different services available on different > interfaces. You can check all the changes that were made to > support this by grepping for the `extended_format' flag in > the source. I think this duplicates the combination of the "-a" combined with a "configuration file" argument? This isn't a bad idea, but there are things to be said for seperate configuration files, especially for split service models (i.e.:, you HUP one inetd and not another, and you can safely use something like "sed" to modify the file contents without worrying about enabling/disabling on the wrong interface. I would be very interested in a binding of the type: ed0:192.168.1.1 ed1:192.168.1.1 actually. This would be useful for things like "inline" VPN machines, where the interface uses one address and by being ganged inline, "just works"... For the most part, the IP address is used to select an interface, more often than not, so it's the binding to an interface that's interesteing, and the IP address less so. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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