From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] bridge - introduce via_phys_dev feature Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:40:46 -0800 Message-ID: <4B8815AE.1090909@candelatech.com> References: <20100226165104.GB5364@lenovo> <4B88076F.8030302@openvz.org> <20100226100102.0d52c6e9@nehalam> <20100226.100800.116618587.davem@davemloft.net> <20100226103003.097c39ec@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bridge@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gorcunov@gmail.com, den@openvz.org, David Miller , xemul@openvz.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100226103003.097c39ec@nehalam> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: bridge-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: bridge-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 02/26/2010 10:30 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:08:00 -0800 (PST) > David Miller wrote: > >> From: Stephen Hemminger >> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:01:02 -0800 >> >>> TCP connections are never really bound to device. TCP routing is >>> flexible; if packets can get through, it doesn't care. >> >> I think he might be talking about SO_BINDTODEVICE > > What application does that with TCP? I use it..helps with using multiple interfaces on the same system, especially when sending-to-self. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com