On 08/25/2010 05:35 PM, Steve French wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Ben Greear<greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When using multi-homed machines, it's nice to be able to specify
the local IP to use for outbound connections. This patch gives
cifs the ability to bind to a particular IP address.
Usage: mount -t cifs -o bindaddr=192.168.1.50,user=foo, ...
Seems like a reasonable idea, but I have a few questions.
Is there a similar named mount option for other network
file systems on other operating systems?
I have patches for NFS as well, but they are a bit more complex,
so I was going to start with cifs.
It *seems* that bindaddr is sort of half way expected to work,
for nfs, (but does not on linux, last I checked, without my additional patches).
I've never tried this on any other platform.
Also don't IPv6 address strings already allow you to specify the local
interface to use?
I think you still have to do the bind() call somewhere, and I don't
think that is happening in the current cifs code.
If/when I can get the ipv4 stuff in acceptable shape for inclusion,
I'll work on ipv6 (it shouldn't be much additional work).
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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