On 8/8/17 5:29 AM, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > Hi > > We noticed that TCP outgoing sockets that are bound to enslaved devices > by SO_BINDTODEVICE fail to connect, while they work when bound to vrf > device instead. We noticed similar behavior on ICMP (i.e. ping -I vrf0 > worked, while ping -I eth0 does not if eth0 is enslaved to vrf0). On > the contrary, UDP outgoing sockets bound to enslaved devices worked > as expected. We tested that on Linux 4.9.30-2 from Debian. > > I found your patchset 'Support for sockets bound to enslaved device' > ( http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg448040.html ), which seems > to be related to the issue, but the description mentions services, > i.e. listening sockets. Does the patchset (or some other one) fixes > the issue also for outgoing sockets? >
Yes, it works for both directions.
