On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:58:00PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > I had spent time trying to write something which > > uses RTA_SRC and RTA_DST and got some problems. > > (I probably made something stupid.) > > I googled for such examples and did not get much. > > I saw that the zebra project and iproute uses > > netlinks but it is complex., > > Have a look at > > http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/findsaddr-linux.c > > which I wrote for traceroute some years back.
A fragile and ugly but easier/shorter way of getting the source address (which I've used a couple of times in the past) is to open a SOCK_DGRAM socket, connect() it to the intended destination, and then do getsockname(). (That doesn't give you the interface, though.) --L - 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
