[[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue Jan 28 09:55:45 2003]:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Hereby i'd like to request the the support for local (source) ip
> address binding in bio_conn.c.
> 
> This should be fairly easy to implement and allows a connection BIO
> to connect from (bind to) a specific source ip address. This
> functionality is typically preferred on systems with multiple ip
> addresses.
> 
> Currently i need to patch bio_conn for this which is a lot of hassle.
> In
> my personal opinion it's functionality which should be default
> supported
> by the library. It's an elemtry step in setting up a socket
> connection.
> 

You may be able to do this with a BIO callback and making calls when it
has reached the appropriate internal state. That's messy but at least
you wouldn't need to patch the OpenSSL core code.

A better way is to support this properly at the BIO level, as you suggest.

Steve.

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