[zeromq-dev] [PATCH] IPv6 changes to 4.0

[Martin Sustrik]

On 08/22/2011 02:18 PM, Steven McCoy wrote:

> Then it gets in6addr_any:sin6_scope_id so theoretically if the OS
> supported it bind would bind to the NIC.  However on Linux you need to
> use SO_BINDTODEVICE which requires CAP_NET_RAW to run.  Hence the
> examples in the initial post.

Why not simply bind to the IPv6 address as returned by getifaddrs?

Martin