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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:27:33 -0600 From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...band.com> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de> CC: Vincent Sanders <vincent.sanders@...labora.co.uk>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: AF_BUS socket address family > On Saturday 2012-06-30 01:12, Vincent Sanders wrote: >> Firstly it is intended is an interprocess mechanism and not to rely on >> a configured IP system, indeed one of its primary usages is to >> provide mechanism for various tools to set up IP networking. > Using IP as a localhost IPC is not uncommon (independent of > software preferring AF_UNIX, if so available). Distro boot > scripts have been running `ip addr add ::1/128 dev lo` > all these years along. > > And now we suddently need a DBUS program just to configure > IP-based localhost IPC? I can see the flaw in that. > I haven't tried it in a while but it used to be that you couldn't use IP multicast on the "lo" device. Has that been fixed? Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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