Subject: Re: independant setting of ifp/ifa on routes
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/25/1999 12:50:49
Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> writes:

> >   Bill, Paul Vixie did some patches to allow per-interface default
> > routes awhile back. (TCP replies go back out the interface which 
> > the original SYN request arrived on, regardless of other routing)
> 
> That's a different (and, I think, mostly orthogonal) issue.  It
> shouldn't conflict with my proposed change at all.
> 
> The distinction is that per-if-default route deals with connections
> inbound to multi-homed hosts, while per-route setting of ifa deals
> with outbound connections.
> 
> 						- Bill

What you did was the generalization (and proper fix) for the sysctl I
added to set the default outgoing address a bit ago, right?

--Michael