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| author | Pieter Hintjens <ph@imatix.com> | 2010-08-10 12:36:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Pieter Hintjens <ph@imatix.com> | 2010-08-10 12:40:22 +0200 |
| commit | a12f446c4c160e6fb969c35ff01578e5f0965ecc (patch) | |
| tree | fe9fd6830abb10a28f234852a02cbf58c5f2b422 | |
| parent | b6cdd369e328ceca2c46758d92ad8ea6a1f59cd7 (diff) | |
Modified zmq_tcp(7) to emphasize wildcard interfaces
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/zmq_tcp.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/zmq_tcp.txt b/doc/zmq_tcp.txt index 1713eb4..2264d75 100644 --- a/doc/zmq_tcp.txt +++ b/doc/zmq_tcp.txt @@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ colon and the TCP port number to use. An 'interface' may be specified by either of the following: -* The interface name as defined by the operating system. +* The wildcard `*`, meaning all available interfaces. * The primary IPv4 address assigned to the interface, in its numeric representation. -* The wildcard `*`, meaning that the interface address is unspecified. +* The interface name as defined by the operating system. NOTE: Interface names are not standardised in any way and should be assumed to be arbitrary and platform dependent. On Win32 platforms no short interface @@ -124,15 +124,15 @@ EXAMPLES -------- .Assigning a local address to a socket ---- +/* TCP port 5555 on all available interfaces */ +rc = zmq_bind(socket, "tcp://*:5555"); +assert (rc == 0); /* TCP port 5555 on the local loopback interface on all platforms */ rc = zmq_bind(socket, "tcp://127.0.0.1:5555"); assert (rc == 0); /* TCP port 5555 on the first ethernet network interface on Linux */ rc = zmq_bind(socket, "tcp://eth0:5555"); assert (rc == 0); -/* TCP port 5555 with an unspecified interface */ -rc = zmq_bind(socket, "tcp://*:5555"); -assert (rc == 0); ---- .Connecting a socket |