netdev - Re: kernel policy routing table src ip not respected since 2.6.37 and commit 9fc3bbb4a752

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Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:36:47 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
To:	Vincent Li <vincent.mc.li@...il.com>
cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joel Sing <jsing@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: kernel policy routing table src ip not respected since 2.6.37
 and commit 9fc3bbb4a752


	Hello,

On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Vincent Li wrote:

> it is strange though when 10.1.1.9 is unreachable address and the ping
> utility reports error 'Destination Host Unreachable' with source
> 10.1.1.1.  before 2.6.37, it reports 10.1.1..2

	I see, it is the icmp_send() function that uses
inet_select_addr() to select primary source for locally generated
ICMP errors that are sent back to the sender (10.1.1.2).
In your case it is the error_report from the ARP code.

	So, you are correct about the commit but I don't
see any problem with this behavior. IIRC, users preferred
to see primary addresses in the traceroute output.

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
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