Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 07:46:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Milan Kopacka <Milan.Kopacka@st.ms.mff.cuni.cz> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Specifying local IP in connect() Message-ID: <199901071546.HAA03218@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jan 1999 12:29:35 %2B0100." <Pine.SGI.3.96.990107113222.24719C-100000@beta.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
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> > However, the rest remained. I still need to open connections from IP x > which my system regulerly doesn't have while still being able to > communicate with machine x. From my point of view, the specified > information (local IP) only moves to other call. This is a bad idea. Originating traffic which won't necessarily be routed back to you, and more to the point asking the system to *expect* it to be routed back to you doesn't seem to be the right way to do this. I appreciate that you're doing this as an academic exercise, however I have to ask whether you've considered the fact that what you're trying to do is largely already performed by the ipfw 'trapdoor' functionality? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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