Re: RFC 3484 support
flat view
From: <hidden>
Date: 2003-11-14 23:45:46
Hello!
Wouldn't this require to set up a socket and connect it to each target address? The point of the whole source and destination address selection is it to avoid making connections
Datagram connect() is exactly selection of the addresses, nothing more. I do not mind against specialized interface, but I still see plain connect() as a reasonable and, the most important, universal solution.
provided. The address which has the highest rate of success and the highest quality for the connection should be tried first.
Hmm... We do not account for this. Do you really propose to gather this kind of statistics in the kernel? I am afraid this is really difficult. Alexey