# Re: AF\_BUS socket address family

- From: Chris Friesen \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-07-06 18:28:21 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/07/3889946
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/06/3886804/t.md

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> On Saturday 2012-06-30 01:12, Vincent Sanders wrote:
>> Firstly it is intended is an interprocess mechanism and not to rely on
>> a configured IP system, indeed one of its primary usages is to
>> provide mechanism for various tools to set up IP networking.
> Using IP as a localhost IPC is not uncommon (independent of
> software preferring AF_UNIX, if so available). Distro boot
> scripts have been running `ip addr add ::1/128 dev lo`
> all these years along.
>
> And now we suddently need a DBUS program just to configure
> IP-based localhost IPC? I can see the flaw in that.
>

I haven't tried it in a while but it used to be that you couldn't use IP multicast on the "lo" device.  Has that been fixed?

Chris
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