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Re: Feature/hack for multi-homed hosts (esp. ifconfig alias)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen D. Williams)
Mon May 29 14:56:54 1995
From: sdw@lig.net (Stephen D. Williams)
To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 10:29:57 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sFKFQ-0000XQZ@chiark.al.cl.cam.ac.uk> from "Ian Jackson" at May 27, 95 12:41:00 pm
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> How about having an environment variable (IP_BIND_DEFAULT_ADDR or some
> such) which contains the IP address to use ? The C library's `bind'
> call would, if the address type was AF_INET and the IP# was
> all-zeroes, copy the struct and fill in the IP# from
> IP_BIND_DEFAULT_ADDR.
I like it... Good backward compatibility with code, etc.
sdw
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