From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Alexey N. Kuznetsov" <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Subject:
Date: 17 Feb 2003 23:10:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1045552237.4501.8.camel@rth.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15949.40369.601166.550803@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 17:53, Neil Brown wrote:
> No.
> My application (which is just using standard rpc server libraries) is
> saying
> "This is in reply to a request that came in through a given
> interface".
>
> It is not reasonable to treat that statement as equivalent to:
> "This packet must go out that interface"
>
> which is what appears to be happening.
You misunderstand what this control message knob means during
a sendmsg() then, it means "send this over interface X"
There is no other valid expectation.
I'm curious where you read something that would suggest otherwise
for sendmsg() behavior wrt. ip_pktinfo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-18 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-15 1:53 Neil Brown
2003-02-18 7:10 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-02-18 11:00 ` sendmsg and IP_PKTINFO Neil Brown
2003-02-18 16:06 ` kuznet
2003-02-18 23:35 ` Neil Brown
2003-02-18 23:56 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-19 3:52 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-19 4:13 ` Neil Brown
2003-02-19 4:03 ` David S. Miller
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