Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: notion of a local address [was: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:41:06 -0400 (EDT) | From | (Wietse Venema) |
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Alan Cox: > Strict RFC compliance isn't a real world goal. I doubt any mailer implements > SEND, SOML or SAML for example. I definitely agree that the #Number and > [a.b.c.d] forms are important though, and that you need to be able to > answer the question. However you need to answer it "is this my address > from the viewpoint of the peer on this connection". I don't see why > user configured data isnt a solution. For the 99.9% of normal cases > SIOCGIFCONF is going to give the right data. People doing clever things > will have to set up config files. simple easy - hard possible.
Cool. I will not waste further time on this until someone takes SIOCGIFCONF away.
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