On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 12:53:17PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

 > 	IPv4 multicast set/getsockopt uses interface address to identify
 > 	the interface.  this causes problem when you have the same IPv4
 > 	address on multiple interfaces (example: "unnumbered" p2p interface).
 > 	we need a way to specify interface by interface index instead.
 > 	also, if interface address changes after setsockopt(a, IP_MULTICAST_IF),
 > 	getsockopt(IP_MULTICAST_IF) will return the new address and it will
 > 	be harder for user program to guess which interface it is.

Oh, thank you!  This is something I need for some changes I've been
working on for mrouted(8).

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>