SO_BINDTODEVICE and multiple net devices, was: Re: Begin testing

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Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> said:

> On Wed, 7 May 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> > 3) SO_BINDTODEVICE support has been added to the networking,
> > also there is documentation on it under Documentation/networking
> > Now the free DHCP server should compile out of the box.
>
> This change involved changing a quite significant procedure call interface
> in the networking section. Is this not something belonging into 2.1.x?
>
> I'd really like a stable 2.0.31 as soon as possible.

I too like stability, but too I would like to see that patch in. I haven't
looked at pre-patch-2.0.31 yet, but how about making it a compile time
option, with the default disabled?

and Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> said:
> The dhcp-970329 from ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp compiled for me with only
> a couple of minor changes (using the glibc if_arp header file rather than
> the Linux one, and not using the Linux time.h), and worked fine in brief
> testing under 2.0.30. This is the same DHCP daemon that's used in the
> Debian distribution. There are others.

You need SO_BINDTODEVICE when you have multiple network cards in your system.

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