> the alias code isn't supposed to work as a real interface. and imho programs
> that expect to bind to a device not an ip are broken.
What about a situation where you have different physical devices on
different physical networks which share the same IP address? This is
perfectly legal and you have to bind to a specific device to know
where requests are coming from.
E.g. Samba 1.x couldn't handle this situation at all (2.x doesn't do
for my network either because of a different problem, but at least it
seems to handle all devices).
Olaf
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