netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as a default value for --on-ip

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Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:21:53 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@...abit.hu>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@...abit.hu>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as
 a default value for --on-ip

Am 21.10.2010 12:47, schrieb KOVACS Krisztian:
> From: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@...abit.hu>
> 
> The REDIRECT target and the older TProxy versions used the primary address
> of the incoming interface as the default value of the --on-ip parameter.
> This was unintentionally changed during the initial TProxy submission and
> caused confusion among users.
> 
> Since IPv6 has no notion of primary address, we just select the first address
> on the list: this way the socket lookup finds wildcard bound sockets
> properly and we cannot really do better without the user telling us the
> IPv6 address of the proxy.
> 
> This is implemented for both IPv4 and IPv6.


Also applied, thanks a lot.

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