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Re: ProxyARP broken in 1.3.28?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Sep 27 18:13:33 1995
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: urlichs@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 17:50:59 +0100 (BST)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <44ao79$9l3@smurf.noris.de> from "Matthias Urlichs" at Sep 27, 95 06:42:01 am
> Since that's only an issue at bind() time, it's not time-critical and I
> presume it can be implemented some other way. My idea is: The interfaces
> get a new flag bit "use this IF address if appropriate", and when
> connecting without a local address the kernel scans the list for IFs with
> that flag set and a "better" address for the connection you're opening.
IMHO that is a routing table not an interface level issue, ie extend
routes to allow you to tack on source addr as well as all the other junk we
keep.
Alan
