Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: > Julian Anastasov wrote: > >> If icmp_send is changed to use inet_addr_type() then ICMP will leave >> with saddr != VIP and that is not nice. >> ... >> >>> I'm not familiar with the IPVS terms, but as far as I understand, >>> it is _not_ going to return RTN_LOCAL, so we get the desired >>> behaviour of selecting a local address as source. >> >> >> But what is preferred is to use VIP in ICMP. >> >> ip route add local VIP dev lo table user_defined >> >> returns RTCF_LOCAL but inet_addr_type() does not return RTN_LOCAL, >> we fix one thing but break another :) > > > Well, I have promissed you to give some feedback after I test the patch > proposed by Patrick, but after Julian's post I can only confirm that it > works exactly as Julian said, what is not what I would expect.
It will pick a local source address and use that. I don't see why it matters whether its the VIP address or some other. - 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
