[avahi] Per-interface fds
Zachary Loafman
zml+avahi at zml.net
Fri Aug 24 14:48:03 PDT 2007
Hey -
I just opened up ticket #163 (http://avahi.org/ticket/163). I have a
simple patch for the issue (basically just reorder the
#ifdef/#elif/#elif section in socket.c that deals with SENDSRCADDR,
etc). However, I'd like to propose a deeper change: per-interface file
descriptors. The main advantage of this is that it *should* avoid the
portability issues of the current attempt.
I think the change would look something like this:
*) Move the fd_* and watch_* fields from AvahiServer to AvahiInterface.
*) Encourage use of avahi_interface_send_packet and replumb a few interfaces
*) Change the socket setup code to use setsockopt(...,IP_MULTICAST_IF...).
After that, Avahi shouldn't need to use IP_PKTINFO.
Does this sound like a reasonable change?
...Zach
PS Is the server.c reflector use of avahi_send_dns_packet_ipv4 (circa
line 819) using the right fd? It looks like it's sending out a
multicast packet over the unicast fd).
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