[PATCH] bind VTY to other interfaces than localhost

[Harald Welte]

Hi all,

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:27:18PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:

> > And we have to maintain compatibility in libosmocore as much as
> > possible if we don't want to break everything that calls telnet_init,
> > so I would recommend introducing a new telnet_init_ex ? that takes the
> > added parameter and keep telnet_init as compatibility.
> 
> Are there many uses of telnet_init which can not be fixed very quickly?

the problem with fre software is that you never know ;)

At least in openbsc/cellmgr-ng/osmo-sgsn/osmo-nitb/osmo-bsc_mgcp, etc.
they all use the existing function.  Also, we really want to avoid the
situation where older versions of openbsc suddenly don't work with a
later version of libosmocore.

I agree that non-local-binding should have been implemented a long time
ago.  Usinga 'char *' for the ip/hostname is also the right thing to do.
However, please don't introduce ipv4 assumptions unless required, so
using proper getnameinfo would make sense.

It would also be a good time to start using the general socket helper
code of libosmocore (osmo_sock_init/osmo_sock_init_ofd) to remove code
duplication.  A patch along those lines would be appreciated.

Regards,
	Harald
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