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From: Arthur van Leeuwen <arthurvl@sci.kun.nl>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] ip route src
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 18:54:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-102269855307686@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-102269733106274@msgid-missing>

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Ciprian Niculescu wrote:

> in LARTC at 4.2.1 Split access
>
> we have: ip route add $net dev $if src $ip
>
> i didn't understand what does the "src", if someone can explaint to me.

The 'src' specifies which source address to choose in case a packet matching
that routing rule does not have a source address yet. This may not seem
useful, until you realise that all outgoing packets generated on the local
machine don't have a source address when routing...

Doei, Arthur.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-29 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-29 18:33 [LARTC] ip route src Ciprian Niculescu
2002-05-29 18:54 ` Arthur van Leeuwen [this message]
2002-05-31 11:45 ` Ard van Breemen

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