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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:46:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu (Chris Timmons)
Cc:        aledm@routers.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UDP "to" address?
Message-ID:  <199708262146.XAA03122@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970826131258.24610B-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu> from "Chris Timmons" at Aug 26, 97 01:14:14 pm

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As Chris Timmons wrote...
> 
> 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.

Which incedently is also available as a port ...

> -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.

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