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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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