>>>>> Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>> Thomas Dickey dixit:
>>> We have a machine with multiple NICs.
>> I don't think you can, without some modification. Recently someone
>> was asking how to select a specific network interface (no patch
>> provided).
JFTR:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel/7048
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel/7048
> That’s way too OS specific, anyway.
This should be a matter of a single bind () call. Which is
sufficiently cross-platform [1].
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/bind.html
> It’s better to use the OS-provided multihoming mechanisms, such as
> policy routing (this is a keyword, just duckduckgo (or google) for
> it).
This doesn't help in the case when one wants just Lynx to use
this specific interface, or when the user in question has no
superuser privileges.
Honestly, this one is in my TODO list, but I cannot make any
promises regarding when I could start actually working on it.
(Though it seems like a single rainy afternoon task.)
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