netdev - Re: What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses?

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Message-ID: <20140523101144.GH24523@breakpoint.cc>
Date:	Fri, 23 May 2014 12:11:44 +0200
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	Niels Möller <nisse@...thpole.se>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>
Subject: Re: What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses?

Niels Möller <nisse@...thpole.se> wrote:
> So now I'm trying to figure out what's the Right Way to enable traffic
> generations with a large number of source addresses, to possibly retire
> the proprietary kernel module. I see a couple of different approaches:

[..]

> 3. Just set the desired local address with the bind call. Currently,
>    this gives an EADDRNOTAVAIL error, so the first step would be some
>    option to allow arbitrary source addresses.

See 'Making non-local sockets work' in Documentation/networking/tproxy.txt
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