[OpenAFS] rxbind for server processes?

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:44:26 -0800


Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:

> I can think of ways to redirect traffic coming in on a designated port
> to different ports depending on the incoming interface.  But what you're
> trying to do is have multiple independent processes bind to (*,7000) and
> route the traffic based on the interface it comes in on.

Isn't he just trying to bind each process to specific addresses and port
7000?  That's a pretty standard thing to want to do and has a standard
Unix API.

> I know of no way to do that, and that's the least of your problems if
> you're trying to run multiple fileservers on the same machine.

This is likely still true.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>