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From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 02:10:37 EST


On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 17:53, Neil Brown wrote:
> No.
> My application (which is just using standard rpc server libraries) is
> saying
> "This is in reply to a request that came in through a given
> interface".
>
> It is not reasonable to treat that statement as equivalent to:
> "This packet must go out that interface"
>
> which is what appears to be happening.

You misunderstand what this control message knob means during
a sendmsg() then, it means "send this over interface X"

There is no other valid expectation.

I'm curious where you read something that would suggest otherwise
for sendmsg() behavior wrt. ip_pktinfo

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