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Date:      Tue, 15 Oct 2002 01:46:31 +0100
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IP_SENDSRCADDR implementation 
Message-ID:   <200210150146.aa39010@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:28:37 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.44.0210141527210.83670-100000@niwun.pair.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.44.0210141527210.83670-100000@niwun.pair.com>, Mike Silb
ersack writes:
>
>I haven't looked at the implementation, but I think that it would be wise
>to include the patch before 5.0-release so that there's a clear cutoff
>where the feature became available.

Ok - I'll see what the reaction here is first and then check with
re@ before considering committing it.

>Have any patches been made to allow
>bind to use this feature yet?

Bind as in named? No, I haven't looked into this, but it would be
a very good candidate, as I think it would remove the issue of
having to bind to new IP addresses while running as an unpriviledged
user.
 
The other thing that could be done here for improved compatibility 
is to implement the Linux IP_PKTINFO socket option and control  
message. Doing this should be fairly trivial once the IP_SENDSRCADDR
code is in place.

Ian

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