Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:27:33 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: AF_BUS socket address family |
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> On Saturday 2012-06-30 01:12, Vincent Sanders wrote: >> Firstly it is intended is an interprocess mechanism and not to rely on >> a configured IP system, indeed one of its primary usages is to >> provide mechanism for various tools to set up IP networking. > Using IP as a localhost IPC is not uncommon (independent of > software preferring AF_UNIX, if so available). Distro boot > scripts have been running `ip addr add ::1/128 dev lo` > all these years along. > > And now we suddently need a DBUS program just to configure > IP-based localhost IPC? I can see the flaw in that. >
I haven't tried it in a while but it used to be that you couldn't use IP multicast on the "lo" device. Has that been fixed?
Chris
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