[reporting against kernel 2.4.18 and 2.4.20] Hello, I noticed a discrepancy in the way bind(INADDR_ANY) treats IP aliases. A UDP socket bound to INADDR_ANY will receive datagrams sent to any of its configured IP addresses, regular or aliases. However, when receiving on the aliased IP, the machine sends out an ICMP "port not reachable" (yet passing the UDP datagram to the socket). This works if the sending UDP application ignores ECONNREFUSED (or doesn't get it, for example if not connected). But I don't want my UDP sender to send if ECONNREFUSED. Is there a way of working around the problem? I would like to avoid binding to each interface individually instead of INADDR_ANY. Any suggestions or insight apreciated! Thank you, Serban Simu - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
