From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, kaber@trash•net
Subject: Re: Missing device binding relating to tcp_v4_send_reset?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:22:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6160B1.3040501@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100810.014846.258126767.davem@davemloft.net>
On 08/10/2010 01:48 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech•com>
> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:46:26 -0700
>
>> This snippet is from some patches Patrick did for me some time
>> back. I think the rest of his work has been merged upstream, but
>> this patch was not. I'm honestly not sure if it's needed or not,
>> but we've been running with it for at least a year or so and it's
>> been working fine for us.
>
> There is no reason at all to force a reply to a packet to
> go out of the same interface as the packet which triggered
> that reply arrived upon.
Ok, in my case I *did* want this behaviour..it makes send-to-self,
BIND_TO_DEVICE and virtual routers and such work properly if I
recall correctly.
Would you consider a sysctl to enable this feature, with it disabled
by default? Please note there are similar sysctls for ICMP already...
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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2010-08-09 17:46 Missing device binding relating to tcp_v4_send_reset? Ben Greear
2010-08-10 8:48 ` David Miller
2010-08-10 14:22 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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