Re: Fw: Linux 2.0/2.1/2.2 -- Anyway to avoid different binaries??

Ted Lemon (mellon@hoffman.vix.com)
Tue, 09 Feb 1999 13:34:33 -0500

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> SO_BINDTODEVICE has been near obsoleted in 2.2 again. IP_PKTINFO
> (when set Linux passes a ip_pktinfo struct as ancillary data that contains
> information about the packet, can be used for sending too) usually
> offers a more elegant solution. SO_BINDTODEVICE is nasty because of its
> security implications - some versions of linux had holes because of it.

Right, this sounds similar to the way SCO and BSD/os do it, and it may
well be a better solution. I'd definitely be game for supporting this
API if I could go back to using BSD sockets...

_MelloN_

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