On 7/28/05, Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/27/05, Wing D Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But a socket is tied to an ip address, and each interface has it's own > > ip address. > > But, an interface may actually have anywhere from 0 to n IP addresses > it responds to.
And I'm pretty sure that there are cases where the ip address to interface mapping can change while a socket is still open, e.g. a card swap, moving between two different wireless setups, dhcp ... One of the beauties of the socket api is that it insulates the app from such low-level considerations. -- 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
