From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Linux Network Development list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question on raw sockets and source IP address validation
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:37:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ABBCA87.2040002@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090924192651.GC19787@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
On 09/24/2009 01:26 PM, Neil Horman wrote:
> That said, its not doing source validation, your socket is actually doing a
> route lookup on the flow from your specified source address to your destination
> address. So you should be able to fool the socket into doing the lookup by
> adding a route to your routing table from your source address to your
> destination address via the interface that you want to send the frames out of.
Hmm...that's an interesting point. Worth investigating for sure.
Thanks,
Chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-24 19:39 UTC|newest]
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2009-09-24 17:53 question on raw sockets and source IP address validation Chris Friesen
2009-09-24 19:26 ` Neil Horman
2009-09-24 19:37 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
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