[Beowulf] automount on high ports

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> if you try to start up a second daemon on that port you'll get a 
> EADDRINUSE on the bind

While we talk about theoretical possibilities, this statement is not 
always true. You could specify something else than INADDR_ANY here:

>  serverINETaddress.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY); /* Accept all */

or bind it to a specific network interface (SO_BINDTODEVICE). Then you 
can bind a second daemon to the same port, but with a different (and 
again not INADDR_ANY) local address or network interface. Many daemons 
can do this nowadays (named, ntpd, etc.).

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Bogdan Costescu

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