Subject: Re: Ping Is Broken

From: Brian Haley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:48:37 -0400

Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> I've commented your: "In this case ping is doing an SO_BINDTODEVICE to eth0",
> so meant: SO_BINDTODEVICE is used *by ping* only to acquire a source address.

Yes, sorry, it was too late here to be reading code :(  Setting the oif in the cmsg
has the same basic effect since it's going to influence the route lookup.

-Brian