Re: [RFC] ip / ifconfig redesign

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 16:18:28 EST


On Fri, 2005-12-02 22:53:19 +0300, Al Boldi <a1426z@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The obvious benefit here, would be the transparent ability for apps to bind
> to addresses, regardless of the link existence.

# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind

and/or bind to address 0 (aka 0.0.0.0) instead of a given IP address.

MfG, JBG

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