On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:10:51PM +0100, Lukas Tribus wrote:
> Lets set IP_FREEBIND on IPv6 sockets as well, this works since Linux 3.3
> and doesn't require CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges (IPV6_TRANSPARENT does).
> 
> This allows unprivileged users to bind to non-local IPv6 addresses, which
> can be useful when setting up the listening sockets or when connecting
> to backend servers with a specific, non-local source IPv6 address (at that
> point we usually dropped root privileges already).

Patch applied, thank you Lukas!

Willy


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