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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Vincent Sanders <vincent.sanders@collabora.co.uk>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_BUS socket address family
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:27:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF72E15.1010703@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1207052242450.2202@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>

> On Saturday 2012-06-30 01:12, Vincent Sanders wrote:
>> Firstly it is intended is an interprocess mechanism and not to rely on
>> a configured IP system, indeed one of its primary usages is to
>> provide mechanism for various tools to set up IP networking.
> Using IP as a localhost IPC is not uncommon (independent of
> software preferring AF_UNIX, if so available). Distro boot
> scripts have been running `ip addr add ::1/128 dev lo`
> all these years along.
>
> And now we suddently need a DBUS program just to configure
> IP-based localhost IPC? I can see the flaw in that.
>

I haven't tried it in a while but it used to be that you couldn't use IP 
multicast on the "lo" device.  Has that been fixed?

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-06 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-29 16:45 AF_BUS socket address family Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 01/15] net: bus: Add " Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 02/15] net: bus: Add documentation for AF_BUS Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 03/15] net: bus: Add AF_BUS socket and address definitions Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 04/15] security: Add Linux Security Modules hook for AF_BUS sockets Vincent Sanders
2012-07-09  3:32   ` James Morris
2012-07-09 18:02   ` Paul Moore
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 05/15] security: selinux: Add AF_BUS socket SELinux hooks Vincent Sanders
2012-07-09 18:38   ` Paul Moore
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 06/15] netfilter: Add NFPROTO_BUS hook constant for AF_BUS socket family Vincent Sanders
2012-07-01  2:15   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 07/15] scm: allow AF_BUS sockets to send ancillary data Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 08/15] net: bus: Add implementation of Bus domain sockets Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 09/15] net: bus: Add garbage collector for AF_BUS sockets Vincent Sanders
2012-07-02 17:44   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-03 12:11     ` Alban Crequy
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 10/15] net: bus: Add the AF_BUS socket address family to KBuild Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 11/15] netlink: connector: implement cn_netlink_reply Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 12/15] netlink: connector: Add idx and val identifiers for netfilter D-Bus Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 13/15] netfilter: nfdbus: Add D-bus message parsing Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 17:11   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-07-02 15:43     ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-07-04 17:30       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-07-05 17:54         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 14/15] netfilter: nfdbus: Add D-bus match rule implementation Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 16:45 ` [PATCH net-next 15/15] netfilter: add netfilter D-Bus module Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 18:16 ` AF_BUS socket address family Chris Friesen
2012-06-29 19:33   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-06-29 18:45 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-06-29 23:22   ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 22:36 ` David Miller
2012-06-29 23:12   ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 23:18     ` David Miller
2012-06-29 23:42       ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-29 23:50         ` David Miller
2012-06-30  0:09           ` Vincent Sanders
2012-06-30 13:12           ` Alan Cox
2012-07-01  0:33             ` David Miller
2012-07-01 14:16               ` Alan Cox
2012-07-01 21:45                 ` David Miller
2012-06-30  0:13         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2012-06-30 12:52           ` Alan Cox
2012-07-02 14:51             ` Vincent Sanders
2012-07-02  4:49       ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-05 21:06     ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-07-06 18:27       ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2012-06-30 20:41 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2012-07-02 16:46   ` Alban Crequy
2012-07-05  7:59 ` Linus Walleij
2012-07-05 16:01   ` Daniel Walker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-02 15:18 Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-07-03 16:52 ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-03 17:18   ` Chris Friesen

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