Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 10:24:05 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@lamb.net>, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2 bugs, I think ;-) Message-ID: <322DBB35.15FB7483@whistle.com> References: <8119.841783800@orion.webspan.net> <57u3te8k9d.fsf@elsevier.co.uk>
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Paul Richards wrote: > > There's no concept of "primary" address in the kernel, they just sit > on a linked list. The kernel does a match of those addresses with > the destination address to determine the "source" address. I forget > the function that does this but it's likely it's just matching the > address on the end of the list straight away. At least, it's something > like that, Garrett probably knows the details. I ran into this problem > with the virtual hosting box I set up. I couldn't control the "source" > address of the packets that were originating from programs running in > the virtual host environments. > > -- > I think a patch just went in to find teh main instead of the last address on the interface
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