netdev - Re: [PATCH] UDP: Make use of inet_iif() when doing socket lookups.

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Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:36:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dlstevens@...ibm.com
Cc:	vladislav.yasevich@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UDP: Make use of inet_iif() when doing socket lookups.

From: David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:58:29 -0700

> I don't see any problem with this. If you're using IP_MULTICAST_IF with
> a bound socket, it forces you to use that interface, anyway.
> 
> I'm not sure multicasting works as expected in some other cases with
> bound sockets (looks like there may be some holes to evade the
> binding), but that's in old code. I don't see any problems from this
> patch.
> 
>                                         +-DLS
> 
> Acked-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>

Thanks for reviewing David.
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