netdev - Re: ipv4: broadcast sometimes leaves wrong interface (since commit e066008b38ca9ace1b6de8dbbac8ed460640791d)

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Date:	Thu, 1 Dec 2011 23:00:27 +0200 (EET)
From:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
To:	Jeroen van Ingen <jeroen@...ndomein.nl>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipv4: broadcast sometimes leaves wrong interface (since commit
 e066008b38ca9ace1b6de8dbbac8ed460640791d)


	Hello,

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Jeroen van Ingen wrote:

> FYI: we successfully tested two scenarios that provide a workaround with
> the current kernel versions:
> 
> 1) Explicitly configuring Radius to use one of the secondary IPs as
> source for the DHCP broadcast. Since the IP we chose is only bound to
> eth0, this broadcast goes out the correct interface. Other
> system-generated broadcast would probably still go out the wrong
> interface, but at least it allows us to accept more than one PPTP
> client.
> 
> 2) Adding an option to the "pppd" config, so the ppp-devices it creates
> do not use the primary IP from eth0 but rather one of the secondary
> addresses. This way we don't have to modify any other software that
> might generate a broadcast.
> 
> 
> While the second option provides a workable solution for us, we're still
> under the impression that this change in behavior might cause a problem
> for other users and/or configurations as well. We'll leave the rest of
> the considerations to the real experts, while remaining curious about
> the outcome :)

	Yes, thanks for confirming that this is the actual
problem! I hope David will find the best way to restore
this feature.

> Thanks again for your assistance.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeroen van Ingen
> ICT Service Centre
> University of Twente, P.O.Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
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