Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 1997 23:17:29 +0200 | From | Uwe Bonnes <> | Subject | SO_BINDTODEVICE and multiple net devices, was: Re: Begin testing |
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Hallo,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> said:
> On Wed, 7 May 1997, David S. Miller wrote: > > 3) SO_BINDTODEVICE support has been added to the networking, > > also there is documentation on it under Documentation/networking > > Now the free DHCP server should compile out of the box. > > This change involved changing a quite significant procedure call interface > in the networking section. Is this not something belonging into 2.1.x? > > I'd really like a stable 2.0.31 as soon as possible.
I too like stability, but too I would like to see that patch in. I haven't looked at pre-patch-2.0.31 yet, but how about making it a compile time option, with the default disabled?
and Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> said: > The dhcp-970329 from ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp compiled for me with only > a couple of minor changes (using the glibc if_arp header file rather than > the Linux one, and not using the Linux time.h), and worked fine in brief > testing under 2.0.30. This is the same DHCP daemon that's used in the > Debian distribution. There are others.
You need SO_BINDTODEVICE when you have multiple network cards in your system.
-- Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
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