Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:45:06 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2 - BSD/OS 4.1 ARP incompatibility |
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On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:22:42AM +0800, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > Andi, there may be two reasons of this behavior: > 1. skb that triggered ARP request had a.b.c.1 source, either because > a) the socket had been bound to that address, or > b) preferred source in the routing table is wrong; > 2. the request source address was selected basing on interface address list, > and produced a wrong result. > I would say that 1b case is the least likely for me. > If the reason of this behavior is 1a or 2, it's a kernel bug in my opinion.
The prefered source address is usually 0 in the fib.
The problem is likely that ip_route_output_slow() does never passes in the daddr into inet_select_addr(), so it does not even have the necessary information.
I'm not sure if it is worth fixing though.
-Andi
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