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Re: Feature/hack for multi-homed hosts (esp. ifconfig alias)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Sat May 27 20:13:26 1995
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 23:15:19 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
To: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sFKFQ-0000XQZ@chiark.al.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Thoughts:
For active opens, I think the routing table is the correct way to select
interface. Is there anything the routing table can't be used for?
For incoming connections, I think inetd.conf is the best place to put all
this. Perhaps
echo stream tcp nowait root internal
could be written as
echo/10.10.10.10 stream tcp nowait root internal
to match only connections whose getsockname() returns 10.10.10.10.
That doesn't catch everything, but it only requires changing one file and
one program.
In the mean time, I have an ftpd which supports multiple archives,
www-style, is very small and fast, has an internal ls, and last but not
least, requires libc 5. Would anyone be interested in alpha-testing it
before I upload it to sunsite? I'm not likely to upload it any time soon,
have to write a man page, INSTALL, README and so on first, not exactly
high priority.
--Arnt
