[mythtv-users] Mythbackend does not bind to IP addresses of interfaces without carrier

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Wed Jun 26 17:17:46 UTC 2013


On 6/26/2013 11:25 AM, Florian Evers wrote:
>> That's not exactly what is going on.  Other applications bind globally to a
>> port.  MythTV binds to specific addresses, and your machine does not have
>> that address until the interface is brought up by connecting the ethernet
>> cable.
> Thanks for your reply. However, your statement is not correct: It is no
> problem to bind a listener socket to the IP address of the inactive interface
> without any issues, e.g., by using netcat:

We get a list of available addresses on the system through the Qt 
libraries. If the address you want to use is not being used by 
MythBackend, it's because we're being told it doesn't currently exist, 
and so we don't attempt to bind to it.


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