Re: Strange UDP binding behavior (SO_BINDTODEVICE)

[Casey Carter <Casey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Dwyer wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 15:51:57 -0500
> Casey Carter <ccarter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
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> > IMHO, the delivery should weigh sk_bound_dev_if much more strongly (7
> > instead of 2), so that if-bound sockets are always favored over
> > non-if-bound.  I would be happy to submit the (trivial) patch to do so
> > if the networking gurus agree?
> >    
> Any possibility of getting this behavior into 2.4 as well?  Albeit,
> without the scoring since that's obviously a new concept introduced by
> 2.6. (Which I prefer; well done.)
>
> I confess that I don't know who to talk to about such a change.
>  
There is actually a similar ranking algorithm in 2.4, with a similar 
fix. I'll work up a patch and resubmit to netdev in hopes that one of 
the gurus will pick it up.
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