[1134] in linux-net channel archive
Re: ProxyARP broken in 1.3.28?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Packman)
Thu Sep 28 21:15:49 1995
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 23:48:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Packman <eric@micro.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
cc: Matthias Urlichs <urlichs@smurf.noris.de>,
submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <199509271650.RAA11547@snowcrash.cymru.net>
On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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.
Well that sounds kinda neat. I don't see why that wouldn't work. Is
that currently possible in Linux?
