On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 06:32:37PM -0200, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote:
> Sorry if this is a little bit out of topic, but I'm developing it in
> OpenBSD and I couldn't find a definitive answer.
> 
> My application has one process for each interface, therefore I have
> one socket to each process, I need each socket to receive packets that
> came only through their interface.
> 
> So process that handles interface iwn0 should only receive packets
> that came through iwn0, and process that handles interface em0, should
> see only packets for em0.
> 
> I'm interested in multicast packets, no doubts about joining the
> group, that I understand.
> 
> Well I obviously don't want to bind to INADDR_ANY, even so, if I did,
> would the packets be delivered in both sockets ? 
> 
> I could also try to play with MCAST_BLOCK_SOURCE, but that doesn't
> seem nice either.
> 
> Pardon my ignorance here, but if I bind each socket to a unicast
> address of the specified interface, I'll get what I want, but what
> happens if the address changes ? Do I need to rebind the socket ?
> I understand that if I need to rebind, I'll use AF_ROUTE to get
> address changes and so on, that's wouldn't be much of a trouble.
> 
> If that's any of concern, I'm joining multicast dns group, and the
> protocol uses udp port 5353.
> 
> Sorry for the long post.
> 

I now realize how dumb my question was, I can't obviously bind the
same address in two different sockets, sorry for the noise.


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