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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 1997 17:08:37 +0100 (BST)
From:      Aled Morris <aledm@routers.co.uk>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UDP "to" address? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970826170445.21490H-100000@ns.uk.peer.net>
In-Reply-To: <199708261352.JAA04942@whizzo.TransSys.COM>

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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:

> Typically, a portable approach to doing this is to create a socket
> per interface address and bind it.  Then you look at which fd the
> packet was received on to determine the destination address.

That sounds like the best way - unfortunately, I'm currently using inetd, 
so I'll have to do a bit more work...

> There also seems to be a socket option you can set which returns the
> destination address in the "control information" field specified
> with recvmsg(2).   I noticed the code for this in ip_input.c.

I've just had a look, INP_RECVDSTADDR looks like the one.  I don't know 
how to set it, or how to recover the data, but I'm sure someone will have 
a nifty code fragment (please?)

Aled
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