suggestions for improvement in java.net APIs

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Alan,

Not sure what is real usecase for this requirements for ipv4.

For ipv6 it should be done by sendmsg() and msg_control.

-Dmitry


On 2013-05-06 11:28, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 05/05/2013 12:19, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
>> Alan,
>>
>> SO_BINDTODEVICE shouldn't be used in modern applications because it
>> causes more problems than solves.
>>
>> e.g. prevents application from handling on-fly device changes.
>>
> The use-case is where an application wants to control the network or
> source address.
> 
> -Alan.


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Dmitry Samersoff
Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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