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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Ping Is Broken
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:48:37 -0400
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Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> I've commented your: "In this case ping is doing an SO_BINDTODEVICE to eth0",
> so meant: SO_BINDTODEVICE is used *by ping* only to acquire a source address.

Yes, sorry, it was too late here to be reading code :(  Setting the oif in the cmsg
has the same basic effect since it's going to influence the route lookup.

-Brian