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Re: Feature/hack for multi-homed hosts (esp. ifconfig alias)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Sat May 27 21:44:36 1995
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 20:02:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sFQZS-0004i6C@hydra.legislate.com>
I personally find it a hack. If such a service is necesary it should be
in the code just like it was done with the patches for the NCSA and CERN
demons, not in some enviroment variable.
Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net
http://underground.org/
On Sat, 27 May 1995, Raul Miller wrote:
> Date: Sat, 27 May 95 18:26 GMT
> From: Raul Miller <rdr@legislate.com>
> To: eric@micro.org
> Cc: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Feature/hack for multi-homed hosts (esp. ifconfig alias)
>
> 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
>
