bind-to-interface option
Luca Boccassi
luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 02:44:47 AEDT 2017
On Sun, 22 Nov 2015, David Ahern wrote:
> Hi:
>
> The openssh suite of commands have an option to specify address (e.g,
> ListenAddress for sshd) but I do not see support for bind-to-interface.
>
> The motivating use case for me is using openssh commands (sshd, ssh,
> scp, sftp) with the recent VRF capability added to the Linux kernel. The
> VRF design relies on the bind-to-interface option to select the correct
> routing tables. Before I started working on patches I wanted to get a
> sense of whether it would be accepted.
>
> Thanks,
> David
Hi,
I've opened an enhancement ticket on Bugzilla and attached a patch [1],
a simple test shows that it's working as intended. Feedback is most
welcome. Thanks!
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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
[1] https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2784
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