Multihomed UDP server

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <400BC9E5.8010609 at stewart.chicago.il.us>, "Randall R. Stewart (home)
" writes:
>>>On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, 12:07+0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>>>>Simple question:
>>>>
>>>>Very simple UDP server daemon.
>>>>
>>>>Many clients (connect(2)'ing a socket for each is not an option)
>>>>
>>>>Multihomed machine.
>>>>
>>>>What's the simple trick to replying with the same source-IP as the
>>>>client used as destination-IP ?
>>
>>I'm considering ways to make sendmsg(2)/recvmsg(2) DTRT, and my
>>current candidate is give them a flag bit which says "msg_name has
>>both addresses".

Following the code it seems that it is in fact possible to do with
sendmsg(2)/recvmsg(2) already, and my test shows that at least the
receive side works.

I challenge anybody to point out where this is mentioned in the docs,
and once people give up I'll tell how to do it :-)

>Poul:
>
>One of the problems I think that is fundamental to BSD and
>multi-homing is the lack of supports for multiple-default routes.

I agree.


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