Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Fw: Linux 2.0/2.1/2.2 -- Anyway to avoid different binaries?? | Date | Tue, 09 Feb 1999 13:34:33 -0500 | From | Ted Lemon <> |
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> SO_BINDTODEVICE has been near obsoleted in 2.2 again. IP_PKTINFO > (when set Linux passes a ip_pktinfo struct as ancillary data that contains > information about the packet, can be used for sending too) usually > offers a more elegant solution. SO_BINDTODEVICE is nasty because of its > security implications - some versions of linux had holes because of it.
Right, this sounds similar to the way SCO and BSD/os do it, and it may well be a better solution. I'd definitely be game for supporting this API if I could go back to using BSD sockets...
_MelloN_
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