From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Mark Frazer <mark@somanetworks.com>
Cc: davem@redhat.com, ak@muc.de, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] new sysctl net/ipv4/ip_default_bind
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:41:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020117234103.A2797@averell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020117172713.A1893@somanetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020117172713.A1893@somanetworks.com>; from mark@somanetworks.com on Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:27:13PM +0100
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:27:13PM +0100, Mark Frazer wrote:
> The following patch applies against 2.4.17 and creates a new sysctl
> node /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_default_bind. The purpose of the control
> is to allow a default IP address to be selected by the sysadmin for
> outgoing connections. That is, for sockets which do not bind(2) the
> local end of the socket before calling connect(2).
You can already do that using the 'from' attribute in iproute2
aka prefered source address per route. Just set it for your default
route.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-17 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-17 22:27 [RFC][PATCH] new sysctl net/ipv4/ip_default_bind Mark Frazer
2002-01-17 22:33 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-17 22:41 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-01-17 22:54 ` Mark Frazer
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