Multihomed UDP server

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jan 19 12:45:58 PST 2004


In message <Pine.BSF.4.53.0401192035030.94399 at e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>, "Bjo
ern A. Zeeb" writes:

>You mean for FreeBSD or in ISBN 0-13-490012-X ?
>
>For FreeBSD it is man 4 ip:
>
>--- cite ---
>     If the IP_RECVDSTADDR option is enabled on a SOCK_DGRAM socket, the
>     recvmsg(2) call will return the destination IP address for a UDP data-
>     gram.  The msg_control field in the msghdr structure points to a buffer
>     that contains a cmsghdr structure followed by the IP address.  The
>     cmsghdr fields have the following values:
>--- cite ---

That really belongs on udp(4) more than ip(4)...

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