Re: IP address for processes

From: Justin (jguyett@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 16:41:59 EST


> This may sound odd, but i want to know if any body
> has done any work on assigning IP addresses (may be
> Virtual IP) to processes. I am exploring ways on how
> to provide IP addresses for processes, files, other
> resources , etc. . I would like to get your opinion on
> this.

If you're root, no problem, just add an alias. Otherwise you'd need some
nice, safe, and sane hook for regular users to do such, and no matter what
you do to enforce playing nice with that kind of capability, you're
probably going to open the system up to abuse.

Justin

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