In article <463969EB.2BC33B15@xxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > That binds to all stacks, which is something completely different. > > E.g. you have two stacks, 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.1. I dont know what you mean with stack. An Address is an Address. And if you bind to .1 you do not get Packets which are not IP nor do you get packets which are sent to .255. > 2 - If you bind to 0.0.0.0 and to the interface, the src address of > that packet is 192.168.1.1 instead of 192.168.2.1. You dont have to bind to the same address on the sending socket. Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html