cannot specify network interface to listen on

[jaroszan]

Currently quaff uses system-getifaddrs to get local_hostname, which does not give option to specify interface. It would be nice to have an opportunity to be able to specify interface in case I have several of them and want to use one specific.

Additionally dependency on system-getifaddrs makes quaff OS dependent.

I am looking forward to using quaff and I would like to ask you if it would be enough to:

• remove import from utils.rb
• remove Utils.local_ip function from utils.rb
• modify initialize function in BaseEndpoint class to accept local_hostname parameter from the user

to get it working for both accepting interface as a parameter and under Windows OS?

[jaroszan]

It turned out one more change is required in call.rb:278 to remove reference to Utils.local_ip and properly pass local_hostname instead.

EDIT:

On the next thought, may be the following solution would be most optimal (just tested it):

1. Add local_hostname to initialize function of the BaseEndpoint class as a parameter with default value (nil)
2. If local_hostname wasn't set during initialization calculate IP address using Socket library like below (utils.rb):

def Utils.local_ip
Socket.ip_address_list.select {|i| i.ipv4_private?}
end

endpoint.rb:
@localhost_name = localhost_name || Utils::local_ip.ip_address

[rkday]

Yes, this seems like a sensible change. If you make a pull request, I'd be happy to accept it and make an 0.8.1 release with this in - otherwise I'll implement it myself when I have time to do it and get my Windows XP machine running to test it on.