From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Rabbitson Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:59:58 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Load balancing using connmark Message-Id: <4642FB2E.2080801@rabbit.us> List-Id: References: <1178722806.7492.55.camel@vulcan.aspl> In-Reply-To: <1178722806.7492.55.camel@vulcan.aspl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Peter Rabbitson wrote: > ... > In the case of _local_ traffic - it becomes even trickier. The problem > is that when sockets are created they already have a source IP (the > kernel determines that by looking at the default routing table, your > marks do not exist yet). This is misleading - it will happen only when the application does not request a specific ip/interface to bind to. Only then the kernel default table is consulted, and the best interface is determined based on the destination that is supplied on socket creation. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc