Re: Determine the interface being used by a socket

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On Thursday 2015-11-05 18:43, David Hinkle wrote:

>we want our proxy server to be able to determine which interface
>each socket is using [...] Right now the best idea I have is to
>reserve [and use] some bits of the connmark [...] I can get to the
>conntrack data, but I doesn't look like conntrack is recording which
>interfaces each flow is using.

A socket, and a flow, may be using multiple interfaces. Separate
packets can take different paths, and they may loop through
encapsulation/tunnels.

And AF_KCM brings a new can of Gagh into the game.


>Is there an API I could call from userspace to figure out what
>interface is being used by a specific connection?

RTM_GETROUTE (man 7 rtnetlink).

A demonstration can be found with `ip route get 62.245.227.22`.
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