From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hasso Tepper Subject: Re: icmp_unreachable uses wrong ip Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 02:35:33 +0300 Message-ID: <200505040235.33461.hasso@estpak.ee> References: <1115040079.5620.11.camel@jeroens.office.netland.nl> <200505030944.49175.hasso@estpak.ee> <4277BFA6.8090306@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "J. Simonetti" , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Patrick McHardy In-Reply-To: <4277BFA6.8090306@trash.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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