Re: determine outgoing interface (eth0,eth1) for a packet according to the dest IP
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2006-04-30 12:55:53
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:17:11AM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
A fragile and ugly but easier/shorter way of getting the source address (which I've used a couple of times in the past) is to open a SOCK_DGRAM socket, connect() it to the intended destination, and then do getsockname().
Yes you're quite right that this would've been a much simpler solution. I suppose I was quite fond of the netlink hammer at the time :) -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} [off-list ref] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt