[avahi] Registering to a specific interface?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 18.08.08 16:04, Michael Bishop (mbishop at perforce.com) wrote:

> Avahi folk,
> 
> I'm most used to the DNSSD calls and am trying to find similar  
> functionality in avahi. I see that when registering a service using  
> Bonjour, I can specify a specific interface upon which to
> register...

This we support:

http://avahi.org/download/doxygen/publish_8h.html#cb05a7d3d23a3b825ca77cb1c7d00ce4

The "AvahiIfIndex interface" parameter is what you are looking
for. You can fill in any interface index that is returned by functions
like if_nametoindex(), and that are considered "relevant" by Avahi.

> In particular, I can specify a constant so it will register in a way  
> that only processes on the local machine can see it

As Trent already mentioned this is not possible with Avahi right now,
because Avahi ignores loopback devices as "irrelevant".

Lennart

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