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From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
To: drepper@redhat.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: RFC 3484 support
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:45:46 +0300 (MSK)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311142345.CAA03631@yakov.inr.ac.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB40FE5.5040709@redhat.com> from "Ulrich Drepper" at Nov 13, 2003 03:12:37 PM

Hello!

> Wouldn't this require to set up a socket and connect it to each target
> address?  The point of the whole source and destination address
> selection is it to avoid making connections

Datagram connect() is exactly selection of the addresses, nothing more.

I do not mind against specialized interface, but I still see plain
connect() as a reasonable and, the most important, universal solution.

> provided.  The address which has the highest rate of success and the
> highest quality for the connection should be tried first.

Hmm... We do not account for this. Do you really propose to gather
this kind of statistics in the kernel? I am afraid this is really difficult.

Alexey

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-14 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-12  1:05 RFC 3484 support Ulrich Drepper
2003-11-13 10:07 ` kuznet
2003-11-13 13:26   ` Pekka Savola
2003-11-13 23:17     ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-11-13 23:29       ` Pekka Savola
2003-11-13 23:12   ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-11-14 23:45     ` kuznet [this message]
2003-11-18  8:59       ` Ulrich Drepper

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