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From: Casey Carter <Casey@Carter.net>
To: Kevin Dwyer <kevin@pheared.net>
Cc: Casey Carter <ccarter@cs.uiuc.edu>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-ha@lists.linux-ha.org
Subject: Re: Strange UDP binding behavior (SO_BINDTODEVICE)
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 16:49:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8334F0.4060205@Carter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031007170823.41ef2ff9.kevin@pheared.net>

Kevin Dwyer wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 15:51:57 -0500
>Casey Carter <ccarter@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>IMHO, the delivery should weigh sk_bound_dev_if much more strongly (7
>>instead of 2), so that if-bound sockets are always favored over
>>non-if-bound.  I would be happy to submit the (trivial) patch to do so
>>if the networking gurus agree?
>>    
>>
>
>Any possibility of getting this behavior into 2.4 as well?  Albeit,
>without the scoring since that's obviously a new concept introduced by
>2.6. (Which I prefer; well done.)
>
>I confess that I don't know who to talk to about such a change.
>  
>
There is actually a similar ranking algorithm in 2.4, with a similar 
fix. I'll work up a patch and resubmit to netdev in hopes that one of 
the gurus will pick it up.

-- 
Casey Carter
Casey@Carter.net
ccarter@cs.uiuc.edu
AIM: cartec69

      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-07 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-05 17:01 Strange UDP binding behavior (SO_BINDTODEVICE) Kevin Dwyer
2003-10-06 22:50 ` Casey Carter
2003-10-07  1:06   ` Kevin Dwyer
2003-10-07 20:51     ` Casey Carter
2003-10-07 21:08       ` Kevin Dwyer
2003-10-07 21:49         ` Casey Carter [this message]

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