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Message-ID: <1344512270.28967.719.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:37:50 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: Re: Bug with IPv6-UDP address binding
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 11:40 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> Yes, I guess its an application bug, because Berkely-derived
> implementations don't handle multihomeing well for UDP.
>
> Why are we keeping this, counter-intuitive behavior?
>
Because the BSD api has no other choice.
> What about changing the implementation to act like Solaris, which IMHO
> makes much more sense?
>
> (BTW, iperf also have this "bug")
>
Please describe how connect() is able to correctly chose for you a
source address, if you have say 256 addresses.
connect() API only requires the destination.
If you want a precise source, you must use bind() before the connect()
Any UDP application wanting to correctly reflect "correct source IP"
must say so to the kernel.
I dont think kernel could magically help here, really.
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