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| author | Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st> | 2011-11-09 11:45:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st> | 2011-11-09 20:19:39 +0200 |
| commit | 65ac51373b7e6a2e2bf4e8131acfda32c0708034 (patch) | |
| tree | e766b2afb9051ea464a8fd220dbc231ec1eeb591 /doc/protocols.texi | |
| parent | c33d4916fba4e81a520b0a579cfb5c3b7c7cf9c7 (diff) | |
udp: Allow specifying the local IP address
This is useful if sending multicast data on a host with
multiple interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/protocols.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/protocols.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi index 8aee5f639c..f06546c6c1 100644 --- a/doc/protocols.texi +++ b/doc/protocols.texi @@ -446,6 +446,11 @@ set the UDP buffer size in bytes @item localport=@var{port} override the local UDP port to bind with +@item localaddr=@var{addr} +Choose the local IP address. This is useful e.g. if sending multicast +and the host has multiple interfaces, where the user can choose +which interface to send on by specifying the IP address of that interface. + @item pkt_size=@var{size} set the size in bytes of UDP packets |