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Re: Strange UDP binding behavior (SO_BINDTODEVICE)

To: Casey Carter <ccarter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Strange UDP binding behavior (SO_BINDTODEVICE)
From: Kevin Dwyer <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:08:23 -0400
Cc: Casey Carter <Casey@xxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 15:51:57 -0500
Casey Carter <ccarter@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

-- 
- kpd
"If at first you don't succeed, redefine success." - Anonymous

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