Re: RFC: Support send-to-self over external interfaces (and veths).

2007-06-11 Thread Patrick McHardy
Ben Greear wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> I would really prefer to simply make the prio 0 "lookup local" >> rule deletable so you can rules with higher priority. That >> allows to do send to self without any further code changes >> and avoids the need to bind applications to a device. >>

Re: RFC: Support send-to-self over external interfaces (and veths).

2007-06-11 Thread Ben Greear
Patrick McHardy wrote: Ben Greear wrote: This should also be useful with the pending 'veth' driver, as it emulates two ethernet ports connected with a cross-over cable. To make this work, you have to enable the sysctl (look Dave, no IOCTLS, there might be hope for me yet!! :)), and in your a

Re: RFC: Support send-to-self over external interfaces (and veths).

2007-06-11 Thread Patrick McHardy
Ben Greear wrote: > This should also be useful with the pending 'veth' driver, as it > emulates two ethernet ports connected with a cross-over cable. > > To make this work, you have to enable the sysctl (look Dave, > no IOCTLS, there might be hope for me yet!! :)), and in your > application you wi

RFC: Support send-to-self over external interfaces (and veths).

2007-06-08 Thread Ben Greear
This should also be useful with the pending 'veth' driver, as it emulates two ethernet ports connected with a cross-over cable. To make this work, you have to enable the sysctl (look Dave, no IOCTLS, there might be hope for me yet!! :)), and in your application you will need to use SO_BINDTODEVIC