On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:35:21 +0200 "Carlos Velasco" <carlosev@newipnet.com> wrote: > On 27/07/2003 at 17:14 David S. Miller wrote: > >Other systems do not give you the capabilities our routing layer does, > >such as route based source address selections. So it is no surprise > >that they behave differently in this area. > > Problem is that linux is unable to behave like the other OS and systems > do in a simple way. > The easy way is the "hidden" patch, if it's applied in the kernel. Not true, anyone is free to design a graphical GUI or shell script (or even a wrapper for the /sbin/ip tool) that gives you the default behavior you want, without any user interaction whatsoever. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html