Re: [Tlf-devel] change ip addres tlf binds to?

[Eric Tamme]

I've done a quick change which I think will add the ability to configure the IP via a config directive.  Can you guys eyeball the diff and see if it makes sense, or if I have missed anything major?

https://gist.github.com/etamme/5fab0f3c13717322b3abb85e8acea28f

-Eric / KK0ECT

> On September 26, 2018 at 1:04 PM Hegedüs Ervin <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Eric,
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:16:57PM -0400, Eric Tamme wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > I guess my confusion lies in the fact that, there is no way to
> > specify the bind ip for the socket server to listen on.
>
> you're right.
>
> Tlf (and nothing more) can't run more services on same ip:port.
>
> You can check the source:
>
> src/lancode.c:
>
>  106 int lanrecv_init(void) {
>  107 if (lan_active == 0)
>  108 return (1);
>  109 
>  110 bzero(&lan_sin, sizeof(lan_sin));
>  111 lan_sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
>  112 lan_sin.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
>  113 lan_sin.sin_port = htons(resolveService(default_lan_service));
>  114 lan_sin_len = sizeof(lan_sin);
>
> only one receiver exists in one Tlf instance, and the receiver
> socket is unconfigurable, as you can see. The address will be
> 0.0.0.0 (INADDR_ANY), port will be the default_lan_service (which
> declared above of this part of code:
>
>  66 /* default port to listen for incomming packets and to send packet to */
>  67 char default_lan_service[16] = "6788";
>
>
> so, I'm afraid you can't use more Tlf instances on same node
> _if_you_want_ to connect the nodes. I think there isn't other
> restriction.
>
>
> 73, Ervin