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Re: CURLOPT_LOCALPORT option broken ?!

From: <koettermarkus_at_gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:01:03 +0100

Daniel Egger wrote:
> On 27.02.2009, at 08:15, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
>> I don't. Mostly since it was once added for the reason that the "mere"
>> binding wasn't enough.
>
> I second that. We're using this feature actively and it works for
> us just fine.

Do you really download content as root user?
Can you describe how to verify SO_BINDTODEVICE behaviour, your special
network setup which requires binding the device?, I'd be glad to verify
it myself.

FYI:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.networking/2008-12/msg00113.html

MfG
Markus
Received on 2009-02-27