From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: "Niels Möller" <nisse@southpole.se>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Subject: Re: What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses?
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 12:11:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140523101144.GH24523@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6zlhtsvnqp.fsf@southpole.se>
Niels Möller <nisse@southpole.se> wrote:
> So now I'm trying to figure out what's the Right Way to enable traffic
> generations with a large number of source addresses, to possibly retire
> the proprietary kernel module. I see a couple of different approaches:
[..]
> 3. Just set the desired local address with the bind call. Currently,
> this gives an EADDRNOTAVAIL error, so the first step would be some
> option to allow arbitrary source addresses.
See 'Making non-local sockets work' in Documentation/networking/tproxy.txt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-23 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-23 9:38 What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses? Niels Möller
2014-05-23 10:11 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2014-05-23 10:49 ` Lukas Tribus
2014-05-23 12:26 ` Niels Möller
2014-05-23 14:12 ` Niels Möller
2014-05-23 12:53 ` sowmini varadhan
2014-05-23 14:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-24 12:06 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-05-23 22:39 ` Cong Wang
2014-05-26 6:39 ` Niels Möller
2014-05-24 11:58 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-05-24 14:44 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-24 15:13 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-05-24 16:02 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-24 17:54 ` David Miller
2014-05-24 18:30 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
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