From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] bridge - introduce via_phys_dev feature Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:30:03 -0800 Message-ID: <20100226103003.097c39ec@nehalam> References: <20100226165104.GB5364@lenovo> <4B88076F.8030302@openvz.org> <20100226100102.0d52c6e9@nehalam> <20100226.100800.116618587.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: xemul@openvz.org, gorcunov@gmail.com, bridge@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, den@openvz.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40075 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965631Ab0BZSat (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:30:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100226.100800.116618587.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:08:00 -0800 (PST) David Miller wrote: > From: Stephen Hemminger > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:01:02 -0800 > > > TCP connections are never really bound to device. TCP routing is > > flexible; if packets can get through, it doesn't care. > > I think he might be talking about SO_BINDTODEVICE What application does that with TCP?