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From: Xavier Roche <roche*lkml@httrack.com>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need for a specific source address selection rule ? (not neccessarily netfilter)
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:36:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C81321F.4010106@httrack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C7A8040.7040002@plouf.fr.eu.org>

Pascal Hambourg a écrit :
> IME, it works for IPv4 but not for IPv6 ; only IPv4 routes seem to
> support the "src" attribute, and IME src is silently ignored for IPv6
> routes.

The conclusion seems to be "Yes, there is a need for a specific source 
address selection rule" to decide which IP address should be selected 
within a single interface, based on arbitrary rules. (especially for IPv6)

The question is now: is there a chance such feature could be included 
one day in the kernel ?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-03 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-29 10:48 Need for a specific source address selection rule ? (not neccessarily netfilter) Xavier Roche
2010-08-29 12:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-29 12:51   ` Xavier Roche
2010-08-29 13:41     ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-29 13:51       ` Xavier Roche
2010-08-29 15:00         ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-29 14:22       ` Xavier Roche
2010-08-29 15:44         ` Pascal Hambourg
2010-09-03 17:36           ` Xavier Roche [this message]
2010-09-03 17:42             ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-03 18:34               ` Xavier Roche
2010-09-03 20:38                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-03 20:43                   ` Xavier Roche
2010-09-03 20:52                     ` Jan Engelhardt

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