From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: Bug with IPv6-UDP address binding
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:48:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1344512926.28967.743.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344505205.3069.55.camel@localhost>
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 11:40 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> Guess I should have read Stephens[1] first, as this problem with
> multihomed hosts is described (on page 219). He also states, that this
> is a problem/feature related to Berkely-derived implementations. E.g.
> Solaris handle this, the way I expected. That is, the source IP address
> for the server's reply is the dest IP of the client's request.
Are you sure ?
So Solaris remembers in socket structure the destination IP address of
last UDP message delivered to userland ?
This is not multi thread safe, so it would be a very bad idea.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-09 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-08 20:37 Bug with IPv6-UDP address binding Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-08-08 20:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-09 9:40 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-08-09 11:37 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-09 11:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-10 19:15 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-08-21 21:51 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2012-08-09 11:48 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
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