There has been an occasional request to allow configuring the client API to connect *from* a particular interface. We could do this by reusing the MYSQL_SET_CLIENT_IP mysql_options() flag, or by allowing bind-address in the [client] (or other) section of the my.cnf. i actually already did this in WL#3126 / WL#3127 -- hartmut Already fixed in 5.5, this WL can be closed. See WL#3126 and WL#3127 / Magnus
