Hi,
Mike> How much trouble would it be to allow some bizarre and
Mike> illegal bind() address (255.255.255.255 springs to mind)
Mike> register a socket as being a transparent proxy/user-space
Mike> masquerade?
I'm not sure what you have in mind but wouldn't something like
sk = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_{DRAGM,STREAM}, IPPROTO_MASQ);
be better ?
since it requires knowledge on the part of the app that uses it i
think that separating waters is better that some strange tweak.
we can add protos to a family... the world doesn't end with the
BSD API... as long as we document it.
Mike> It would seem relatively straightforward, but I suspect
Mike> there are things here that I'm forgetting about.
regards,
Pedro.