On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> - pump doesn't explicitly set the interface (it binds to { 0.0.0.0,68}),
> but eth1 gets picked for some lucky reason anyway
ack. I have exactly the same problem. This far I've worked around it
by bringing eth1 always up first.
> 1) I'm not sure why ip_route_output returns such a strange
> interface/address combination (didn't look up the details since it
> happens to err on the convenient side)
Didn't check either but think it's a list where you simply take the tail
(or head).
> - make it happen less often by setting NFC_ALTERED only when
> something has changed (probably a good idea in any case)
There seems to be a FIXME waiting for removal in ip_nat_fn(). Depends
on a couple of things I didn't check but testing for info->num_manips != 0
might work. Will test tomorrow.
> Does anybody know who's taking care of pump ? I've only found the SRPM,
> and it is remarkably devoid of any hint to its origin :-(
How about man pump? :) It's developed and maintained at RedHat internally.
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