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Message-Id: <20070917.192044.48396034.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:20:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: ytht.net@...il.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.22.6 NETWORKING [IPV4]: Always use source addr in
skb to reply packet
From: lepton <ytht.net@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:16:17 +0800
> Hi,
> In some situation, icmp_reply and ip_send_reply will send
> out packet with the wrong source addr, the following patch
> will fix this.
>
> I don't understand why we must use rt->rt_src in the current
> code, if this is a wrong fix, please correct me.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@...il.com>
That the address is wrong is your opinion only :-)
Source address selection is a rather complex topic, and
here we are definitely purposefully using the source
address selected by the routing lookup for the reply.
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