netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: Allow sending multicast packets on specific i/f using VRF socket

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Date:   Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:31:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mmanning@...tta.att-mail.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, rshearma@...tta.att-mail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: Allow sending multicast packets on
 specific i/f using VRF socket

From: Mike Manning <mmanning@...tta.att-mail.com>
Date: Mon,  1 Oct 2018 09:40:23 +0100

> From: Robert Shearman <rshearma@...tta.att-mail.com>
> 
> It is useful to be able to use the same socket for listening in a
> specific VRF, as for sending multicast packets out of a specific
> interface. However, the bound device on the socket currently takes
> precedence and results in the packets not being sent.
> 
> Relax the condition on overriding the output interface to use for
> sending packets out of UDP, raw and ping sockets to allow multicast
> packets to be sent using the specified multicast interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@...tta.att-mail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@...tta.att-mail.com>

Applied.