From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [cifs bindaddr v5] cifs: Allow binding to local IP address. Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:55:10 -0700 Message-ID: <4C979FFE.7070805@candelatech.com> References: <1283385962-10539-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel To: Steve French Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 09/20/2010 10:44 AM, Steve French wrote: > Ben, > Dr. Holder took a look at this and acked it. > This does help the problem of choosing > wired vs. wireless for mounts to specific servers > (where the default route would be wrong as happened > to me last week) and also there are some IPv6 > cases it helps with. > > If nfs guys require a different name for the mount > option etc. - let me know. The NFS guys don't seem to see any use at all in binding to IPs, so I'm not sure they'll ever take such a patch. I should have time to test the smb2 patch today if all goes well... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com