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Message-ID: <1344512926.28967.743.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:48:46 +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:
> Guess I should have read Stephens[1] first, as this problem with
> multihomed hosts is described (on page 219). He also states, that this
> is a problem/feature related to Berkely-derived implementations. E.g.
> Solaris handle this, the way I expected. That is, the source IP address
> for the server's reply is the dest IP of the client's request.
Are you sure ?
So Solaris remembers in socket structure the destination IP address of
last UDP message delivered to userland ?
This is not multi thread safe, so it would be a very bad idea.
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