Re: [RTNETLINK] Provide real oif

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 06:02, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi Dave:
> 
> This patch adds a new attribute RTA_PREFOIF to the RTNETLINK interface
> so that we can send the real oif to user space.  Hmm, would RTA_REALOIF
> be a better name? It really should be called RTA_OIF but that's already
> taken.
> 
> Currently if there are two entries in the routing cache that only differ
> by the value of oif then they will appear identical to user space.  The
> only way to tell them apart would be to export the value of oif from
> the kernel.
> 

Can you provide a real example (output of route display in user space)
where this would be valuable?
whats wrong with the combo of RTA_OIF and RTA_SRC?

cheers,
jamal