On 7/27/05, Michael Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're entirely correct, but most hosts have one default route and one > interface that that route can take, and in this case it's assumed that > is the goal - to find which. If this were a multihomed router, routes > change often and packets may not always go out the same interface. > Here it is assumed that there are fixed, single routes out each > interface and an additional default route which picks one and only one > outbound interface.
Right, but because of the general case, I don't think that the socket has any idea of being tied to a particular interface, unless somehow it got bound to a particular interface with setsockoptions() and that generally doesn't happen. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
