From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: icmp_unreachable uses wrong ip Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 01:37:40 +0200 Message-ID: <42780B44.8040803@trash.net> References: <1115040079.5620.11.camel@jeroens.office.netland.nl> <200505030944.49175.hasso@estpak.ee> <4277BFA6.8090306@trash.net> <200505040235.33461.hasso@estpak.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "J. Simonetti" , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Hasso Tepper In-Reply-To: <200505040235.33461.hasso@estpak.ee> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hasso Tepper wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>But when multiple addresses are used the result can be even more >>confusing. I don't like inconsistent behaviour, and this patch works >>sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. > > > I see no behaviour you can define as "it doesn't work". Purpose of this > patch is to provide info about links (not addresses, you can't have this > info) used to forward packets and it does the job. Well, arguably it can be called "doesn't work" if addresses not used at all during transmit of the packet show up in traceroute. Regards Patrick