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On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 06:06:33PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote: > There is a problem with IP aliases in sunrpc server over UDP. If > there are more than one IP addresses on an interface, when the sunrpc > server sends the reply back to client, the kernel will pick an IP > address on that interface for the reply packet, which may not be the > IP address the client is using. In some cases like NAT, it doesn't work > very well. If we add a "struct msghdr" field in SVCXPRT, with > IP_PKTINFO, recvmsg and sendmsg, we may be able to get it right. Any > comments? I can create a patch for glibc 2.2 if it is a good idea. After taking a closer look, a new entry to SVCXPRT: struct sockaddr_storage xp_laddr; /* local address */ should be sufficient. H.J.
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