Multi-homed socket server?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Carsten Gaebler <cg at schlund.de>:
| Joshua Muskovitz wrote:
|> This is just a guess, so take it for what it is.
|> 
|> When you bind with INADDR_ANY, you are saying that you don't care which
|> address it binds to.  But I don't think this means "accept connections from
|> any network adapter".  I think it means "select an adapter somehow, bind to
|> it, and accept connections on it".
|
| The ip man page says: "When INADDR_ANY is specified in the bind call the
| socket will be bound to all  local  interfaces." So it should work.

Right.  And for the original poster, INADDR_ANY is spelled '' (i.e.,
an empty string supplied as the address parameter is so interpreted.)

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu