> From: Steve Wise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:23 AM > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sean Hefty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tom Tucker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <openib-general@openib.org> > > > Tom Tucker wrote: > >> Sean: > >> > >> I was looking through ip_resolve_local and it looks to me like > >> if the source address is 0, it will end up getting set to the > >> destination IP instead of the IP address of the local interface. > > > > The intent of ip_resolve_local() is to check if a given destination > > address is on the local system. If it is and no source address is > > specified, then the source address is set to the same address as the > > destination. > > > > This doesn't sound correct to me. The src ip address is supposed to be > the local ip address to be used for establishing the connection. If you > set it to the destination address, then you'd end up passing that > address to the peer in the private data, and that is incorrect...
If the destination address is on the local system, then the user is establishing a loopback connection. I think that if the user didn't specify a source address, returning the same address as the destination should give the proper results. For loopback connections, source and destination can (and will likely) be the same. - Fab _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
