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From: Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "J. Simonetti" <jeroens@office.netland.nl>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: icmp_unreachable uses wrong ip
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 02:35:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505040235.33461.hasso@estpak.ee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4277BFA6.8090306@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> But when multiple addresses are used the result can be even more
> confusing. I don't like inconsistent behaviour, and this patch works
> sometimes and sometimes it doesn't.

I see no behaviour you can define as "it doesn't work". Purpose of this 
patch is to provide info about links (not addresses, you can't have this 
info) used to forward packets and it does the job. 

> > And can you explain what theoretical possibilities router has to obtain
> > info what address was used as nexthop by neighbour?
>
> I can think of none.

Exactly.

regards,

-- 
Hasso Tepper
Elion Enterprises Ltd.
WAN administrator

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-03 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-02 13:21 icmp_unreachable uses wrong ip J. Simonetti
2005-05-02 13:59 ` Hasso Tepper
2005-05-02 14:52   ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-02 17:38     ` Hasso Tepper
2005-05-02 22:04       ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-03  6:44         ` Hasso Tepper
2005-05-03 18:15           ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-03 23:35             ` Hasso Tepper [this message]
2005-05-03 23:37               ` Patrick McHardy
2005-05-04  8:29                 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-05-04  7:03         ` Meelis Roos
2005-05-03 11:46   ` Hasso Tepper
2005-05-03  9:22 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-05-03  9:42   ` Pekka Savola
2005-05-03 10:38     ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-05-03 11:00       ` Hasso Tepper
2005-05-04  1:15     ` Glen Turner

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