On 3/10/09 3:04 PM, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Why do we need to send what we think is our IP? IMO, this is completely
> useless, as it doesn't matter at all. 

We had discussions about this in Brussels. Some people want this. No one
says you need to implement it in your client.

> It only means extra work for the
> client developers, which means they need to find a portable way to
> detect the IP adress on all interfaces. Plus this only allows specifying
> one IP. I think this puts unnecessary burdens on client developers.

Another option is not to send the client's IP at all and the server just
returns the IP address that it sees as the IP from which the client
connected.

Peter

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