On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:56:18 +0100 Richard Underwood <richard@aspectgroup.co.uk> wrote: > Which nicely sums up the bug, really. Ok, then how would you propose to be able to send packets out an interface _before_ we have addresses assigned to it? Linux allows that, and in fact it's a useful feature. Consider MSG_DONTROUTE as well. BTW, this ARP source address algorithm we use comes from ipv6, it would be instructive to go and see why they do things the way they do. - : 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