Re: Binding a socket with a local address NOT of my machine

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On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:02:17PM +0300, Talmon_Reiss wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to send packets with a local IP address which is not one of my
> interface addresses. The "bind" call on the socket will fail if I try this.
> Is it possible at all? Does the kernel code need to be changed to not return
> an error on the "bind" in order to do this? Or is it not as simple as that?

In 2.4 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind

-Andi
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