On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 22:22 -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: "Zhang, Yanmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:07:19 +0800 > > > I am wondering if UDP stack in kernel has a bug. > > If one server binds to INADDR_ANY with port N, then any other socket > can be bound to a specific IP address with port N. When packets > come in destined for port N, the delivery will be prioritized > to whichever socket has the more specific and matching binding. What does 'more specific' mean here? I assume 127.0.0.1 should be prioritized before 0.0.0.0 which means packets should be queued to 127.0.0.1 firstly.
> > So the kernel is fine. But kernel now queues packets to 0.0.0.0. > > Netperf just needs to be more careful in order to handle this kind of > case more cleanly. It's better if kernel works more reasonable. -yanmin -- 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
