From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Casey Carter Subject: Re: Strange UDP binding behavior (SO_BINDTODEVICE) Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 16:49:36 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F8334F0.4060205@Carter.net> References: <20031005130154.5bd9d182.kevin@pheared.net> <3F81F1CD.8050803@Carter.net> <20031006210600.37da62c9.kevin@pheared.net> <3F83276D.3070700@cs.uiuc.edu> <20031007170823.41ef2ff9.kevin@pheared.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Casey Carter , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-ha@lists.linux-ha.org Return-path: To: Kevin Dwyer In-Reply-To: <20031007170823.41ef2ff9.kevin@pheared.net> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Kevin Dwyer wrote: >On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 15:51:57 -0500 >Casey Carter 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