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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses?
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 12:11:44 +0200
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Niels M=F6ller <nisse@southpole.se> wrote:
> So now I'm trying to figure out what's the Right Way to enable traffi=
c
> generations with a large number of source addresses, to possibly reti=
re
> 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