netdev - Re: problem with flowi structure

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Message-ID: <1284746879.2235.9.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:07:59 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Nicola Padovano <nicola.padovano@...il.com>
Cc:	AIJAZ BAIG <aijazbaig1@...il.com>,
	netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem with flowi structure

Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 20:01 +0200, Nicola Padovano a écrit :
> > if you say now :
> >
> > Send a packet to google, please, I dont care of what source address you
> > chose, but I am interested to receive an answer, of course. (application
> > does not use bind() system call, only a send())
> 
> why an application that wants to send a packet to google would send it
> with a different source ip of the host in which it resides?
> ie. an application is on a machine which ip is: 192.168.0.2 and the
> machine has only one ip address...
> 

I dont understand the question or the problem.

If you look closer, you can see your machine has at least two addresses.



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