Local-ip-address setting for telepathy-idle
Submitted by Santtu Lakkala
Assigned to Telepathy bugs list
Description
Many popular irc clients support selecting the IP onto which to bind outgoing connectiongs. This is mostly popular on servers with multiple IP addresses, and is not necessarily too useful for a desktop client. I'm, however, looking into telepathy as a base of a multi-protocol-notifier/information bot, and choosing the IP would be really beneficial.
This might serve also people who use VPN to a company internal network (although in these cases it should work automatically, but just in case).
The point is to do a bind() for the socket (with 0 port) before connect()ing.