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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:55:06 +0300
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] [RFC 0/5] bridge - introduce via_phys_dev feature
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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: den@openvz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@linux-foundation.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, xemul@openvz.org

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:30:03AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:08:00 -0800 (PST)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
> > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:01:02 -0800
> > 
> > > TCP connections are never really bound to device. TCP routing is
> > > flexible; if packets can get through, it doesn't care.
> > 
> > I think he might be talking about SO_BINDTODEVICE
> 
> What application does that with TCP?
> 

Seems g500i uses it http://goo.gl/5lIi (function open_tcp_socket),
which is either router firmware or kind of modile device.
But frankly -- this seems to be unrelated to a bridge.

	-- Cyrill