On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Chris Buechler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Using 2.0 from a few days ago…
>>
>> In the OpenVPN setup, I can (must) choose which interface each OpenVPN
>> server is listening on.  I must also choose a local port number to bind to.
>>
>>
>>
>> If I’m binding a specific port to a specific interface, why can’t I reuse
>> the same port# on another interface?
>>
>> (I tried, the gui complains that the local port is already in use.  Which is
>> true, but – I think – shouldn’t matter if it’s bound to specific
>> interfaces.)
>>
>
> The management interface, which binds to 127.0.0.1, also uses that
> port, which can't be re-used. I'd rather work around that in a
> different fashion in the future, but that's rife with possibilities
> for introducing bugs, and it's not broken, so it's not going to change
> for 2.0.
>

This is not true. The management interafce is a unix domain socket now.
And that is only a bug of th eweb interface!
I thought that Jim fixed that at some point.

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