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Command line client for LibreSpeed

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Add interface option #65

Closed MagnaboscoL closed 1 month ago

MagnaboscoL commented 1 year ago

This PR addresses issue 61 and add the --interface option provided by Ookla speedtest too.

This option compared to --source provides some benefits:

you can specify the name of the interface (Example: enp0s3) instead of having to get its address
is independend from the rules in the routing table because the socket is bound directly to the device using the socket option SO_BINDTODEVICE