netdev - Re: nonlocal

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Message-Id: <20111216.020600.1695776769736304587.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:06:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bernat@...fy.cx
Cc:	zenczykowski@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: nonlocal_bind and IPv6

From: Vincent Bernat <bernat@...fy.cx>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:24:04 +0100

> OoO En  ce milieu  de nuit  étoilée du vendredi  16 décembre  2011, vers
> 04:58, Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com> disait :
> 
>> why not simply use the IP_TRANSPARENT or IP_FREEBIND socket options?
> 
> Because  this requires  modifying each  affected software.  This  can be
> difficult if you don't have the source code available.

But it means that it would work on every single kernel verion out
there.
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