Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: > David Miller wrote: > >>> BTW, there doesn't even seem to be a spot where IPVS calls >>> ip_route_output with the source address set. What exactly is this >>> needed for? >> >> >> I suppose he has a patch to make use of it, but was waiting >> for this route.c change to go in first. > > > If you mean me, the answer is no, I do not have any patch making use of > the change in question. What I have is rather a complicated method of > notifying udp clients on communication problems before they are > redirected to a new real server. My method needs some IPVS related > patches, but ICMP port unreachable messages are not generated inside > IPVS code, they are just sent, with help of the patch in question, from > udp_input() or netfilter REJECT.
Both use icmp_send(), which should always pick a local source, so I don't understand why this change was needed. Could you describe the specific case when the packet generated by icmp_send() does not have a local source? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
