[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD Dual homed

Brian A. Seklecki lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org
Thu Dec 20 23:33:27 EST 2007


On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Lonnie Olson wrote:

> routing decisions are solely based on the destination address, and
> have nothing to do with the source address.  And you default route is

Or more-accurately, the source address of the original SYN packet that 
initiated the TCP socket/connection.  Because IP datagram and Ethernet 
packet switching decisions are made autonamous of TCP state tables (At a 
different layer by different code, by design).




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