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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 13:14:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
To: Aled Morris <aledm@routers.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: UDP "to" address?
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Use bpf directly, like dhcpd does?  I'd go looking for the isc dhcpd
implementation at www.isc.org.  The code is well written and easy to
follow.

-Chris

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Aled Morris wrote:

> Does anyone have a way of recovering the address to which a UDP packet 
> has been addressed?  recvfrom(2) only returns the source address and
> getpeername(2) is no use for UDP.
> 
> The problem I have is a multi-homed machine which needs to know the 
> address the client has used to reach it.
> 
> Aled
> -- 
> tel  +44 973 207987                      O-
> aledm@routers.co.uk
>