Re: IPv6 sending to a device without a route

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew May
Chinh Nguyen wrote: > If your interface is Point-to-Point, can you use MSG_DONTROUTE flag with > sendmsg? > I just tried the MSG_DONTROUTE flag and it doesn't seem to make a difference. And in the linux/net/ipv6/udp.c file I don't see where the msg->msg_flags is checked for that, or passed to a f

IPv6 sending to a device without a route

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew May
I would really like to be able to send an IPv6 with a arbitrary IP out a specific interface for a setup/probe type situation. So there is no route setup yet, and it will be sent out a Point-to-Point type interface. With IPv4 I was able to do this just fine with a sendmsg with the IP_PKTINFO data. B