On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:53:32AM -0400, Dylan Taft wrote: > I just found out, SO_BINDTODEVICE requires root privs. If I am a > regular user, and I want to recv a broadcast sent to 255.255.255.255 > on a specific interface, how can this be done? Binding to 0.0.0.0, it > seems only broadcasts will come in on whatever if has the default > route. > > I'm trying to work around the fact that linux will not receive > broadcasts when binding a socket to an IP other than INADDR_ANY. > Windows does this, and it's required for the wine project. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Why don't you bind to INADDR_ANY, set the IP_PKTINFO socket option on the socket in question, and filter based on the ipi_ifindex value in the ancillary messages that come in with each packet? Regards Neil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
