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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 16:49:36 -0500
From: Casey Carter <Casey@Carter.net>
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To: Kevin Dwyer <kevin@pheared.net>
CC: Casey Carter <ccarter@cs.uiuc.edu>, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
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Subject: Re: Strange UDP binding behavior (SO_BINDTODEVICE)
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Kevin Dwyer wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 15:51:57 -0500
>Casey Carter <ccarter@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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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