netdev - Re: Ping Is Broken

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Message-ID: <4AD48535.4000708@hp.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:48:37 -0400
From:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
CC:	Rob.Townley@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Omaha Linux User Group <olug@...g.org>,
	CentOS mailing list <centos@...tos.org>
Subject: Re: Ping Is Broken

Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> I've commented your: "In this case ping is doing an SO_BINDTODEVICE to eth0",
> so meant: SO_BINDTODEVICE is used *by ping* only to acquire a source address.

Yes, sorry, it was too late here to be reading code :(  Setting the oif in the cmsg
has the same basic effect since it's going to influence the route lookup.

-Brian
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