On 05/03/10 23:04, Christoph Badura wrote:
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 07:17:56PM +0000, Mihai Chelaru wrote:Committed By: kefren Date: Sun May 2 19:17:56 UTC 2010 Modified Files: src/sys/net: route.c rtsock.c Log Message: Permit the existence of a route with unlinked ifp and ifa, enabling this way the posibility to send a packet on an interface with source address from another interface.What is this about?
Permits a route to be created using -ifa x.x.x.x -ifp if0 even if x.x.x.x is attached on a different interface. It's consistent with what route(5) states and doesn't ignore one of the parameters like until now.
Why is it necessary?
It's essential for my further work where I need to route packets to a pseudo-interface in order to encapsulate packets but without using that interface particular address.
Was it discussed somewhere?
Yes, but in private. I don't see it as a feature added but a bugfix so bringing it on tech-net@ was not necessary in my opinion.
-- Mihai