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Re: Feature/hack for multi-homed hosts (esp. ifconfig alias)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raul Miller)
Sat May 27 19:13:06 1995
Date: Sat, 27 May 95 18:26 GMT
From: rdr@legislate.com (Raul Miller)
To: eric@micro.org
CC: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <Pine.3.89.9505271609.A16466-0100000@amoeba> (message from Eric Packman on Sat, 27 May 1995 16:54:51 -0400)
Eric Packman:
So what is so bad about accepting an incomming TCP connection on all
ports? Obviously, I have missed something. Feel free to fill me in. :)
I can think of two potential issues, perhaps both of them spurious.
(1) when originating (rather than listening) choice of ip address may
be significant.
(2) In some circumstances it might be nice to not provide certain
services on all interfaces. [e.g. when there's some concept of a
"local" or "priviledged" subnet.]
--
Raul D. Miller
