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On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 12:36:38PM +0200, Gisle Aas wrote: > If you don't specify a LocalAddr, then the socket will not be bound, > and the OS will automatically choose some interface based on the route > taken to reach the PeerAddr. For hosts with multiple interfaces > LocalAddr can be used to choose which route you want. The default > should still be not to bind the socket. Yes, but having a global at the IO::Socket level is not the right thing to do. There are some applications where you have to use different LocalAddr depending on where you are connecting. Right now a port will be correctly selected, but with this proposal you may end up forcing the use of a port which has no route to your destination. Which means every module which uses IO::Socket will either have to start specifying a LocalAddr, just incase a global has been spcified, or do a local($IO::Socket::INET::LocalAddr) or whatever. IMO, the LocalAddr information should be passed via new(). Graham.Thread Previous | Thread Next