Re: xPL Perl

[Mark Hindess <xpl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 December 2005 at 20:25, "Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> Sounds good - I'll give it a try later tonight. I'd say that probably
> the -i eth0 style approach is more user friendly, it strikes me that
> customising the listening interface is more of an advanced user kinda
> thing.

I've actually added the simpler "-i eth0" type syntax in the
subversion
repository.  I'll make another release at the weekend but I need to fix
up some unit tests to improve coverage of the new code first.  It works
for me though.

It was always my intention to bind by interface (as you say it's more
user friendly).  It wasn't trivial since there isn't a good standard way
to look up interface information from Perl so I wrote some simple code
to do this.  (The code also had to work around the fact that the loopback
interface isn't really a broadcast interface.)

I might add support for the dual interface for "local"
communications
soon, but the visibility of "127.0.0.1" packets going beyond the
host
still bothers me.

Regards,
Mark.