netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] net: l3mdev: Fix source address for unnumbered deployments

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Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:24:15 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] net: l3mdev: Fix source address for
 unnumbered deployments

From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:47:01 -0800

> David Lamparter noted a use case where the source address selection fails
> to pick an address from a VRF interface - unnumbered interfaces. The use
> case has the VRF device as the VRF local loopback with addresses and
> interfaces enslaved without an address themselves. e.g,
 ...
> ping to the 10.2.2.2 through the L3 domain:
 ...
> picks up the wrong address -- the one from 'lo' not vrf0. And from tcpdump:
>     12:57:29.449128 IP 9.9.9.9 > 10.2.2.2: ICMP echo request, id 2491, seq 1, length 64
> 
> This patch series changes address selection to only consider devices in
> the same L3 domain and to use the VRF device as the L3 domains loopback.
 ...

Series applied, thanks David.