On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 08:40:14PM +0200, Yuval Shaia wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 05:39:07PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > > Just read man page and realized that you are correct, when 'node' > > > argument is given the AI_PASSIVE is ignored. > > > I am confused, why can't i have them both? i.e be *passive* side of > > > the connection *while* still bind to specific source address. > > > > The behavior matches getaddrinfo(): > > > > If the AI_PASSIVE flag is specified in hints.ai_flags, and node is > > NULL, then the returned socket addresses will be suitable for > > bind(2)ing a socket that will accept(2) connections. The returned > > socket address will contain the "wildcard address" (INADDR_ANY for > > IPv4 addresses, IN6ADDR_ANY_INIT for IPv6 address). The wildcard > > address is used by applications (typically servers) that intend to > > accept connections on any of the host's network addresses. If node > > is not NULL, then the AI_PASSIVE flag is ignored. > > > > You can call getaddrinfo() without the passive flag and simply use the returned address as input into bind, provided that you know the address is local. > > Yeah perfect, it goes hand by hand with my testings. So actually AI_PASSIVE > can be skipped in local server case, right? > > Leon, > Since RAI_PASSIVE is used not only for getaddrinfo i would leave it's > settings as it is unless you have an objection. > > What do you think? Thanks, applied. > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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