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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: problem with flowi structure
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:26:08 +0200
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Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 =C3=A0 17:14 +0200, Nicola Padovano a =C3=A9=
crit :
> Hi all. I'm "studying" the flowi structure.
> I see some source code:
>=20
> [CODE]
> ...
> fl.nl_u.ip4_u.saddr =3D 0
> ...
> ip_route_output_key(....,&fl,....)
> ...
> (where fl is a flowi struct)
> [/CODE]
>=20
> what is the meaning of saddr =3D 0?
>=20
>=20

This means ip_route_output_key() is allowed to chose whatever source ip
address to reach remote peer.