On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:00:24AM -0400, Clemmitt Sigler wrote:
> On this point, there must be something fundamental about the Hurd's
> architecture I don't understand.  Why shouldn't it be possible to
> just do this:
> 
> # settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a u.v.w.x -m ...
> # settrans /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth1 -a u.v.y.z -m ...
> 
> to configure multiple 'net interfaces?  This is (more of less) the
> way I'd do it in some flavor *nix.  Thanks :^)

Because if a program opens a socket, it can only ever talk to one of the two
tcp/ip stack servers.

What you want is

# settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a ... -i eth1 -a ...

Marcus

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