[Openswan dev] Error building klips-ipv6 (missing include?)
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh at mimosa.com
Mon Oct 11 14:42:28 EDT 2010
| From: Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com>
| I have been working a bit on the listen code, and I was considering an
| option to just listen to ANY. I am not sure what the history was of not
| listening on all IP's whenever they become available to the system.
|
| Perhaps Hugh or Hugh can sched some light on that?
Off the top of my head, I can vaguely recollect two issues:
- we want control of which interfaces are used. The only way was to
control the IP addresses
- we want to know the inbound IP address on each packet. recvfrom
doesn't give you that, so we nail down which IP by only accepting
a specified IP address on each socket. So we have to know the IP
address.
Note: there seems to be something newish called recvfromto that is now
half supported in the code, controlled by HAVE_UDPFROMTO. But that
code currently ignores to "to" that recvfromto returns.
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