Re: incorrect source address for local TCP connections?

[Brian Haley]

Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> But I think this is a symptom rather than the cause. It is from a cache
> after all. I tried flushing routes + adding various src= routes to both
> devices but the problem persists: apparently the src= is ignored for
> traffic to a secondary IP address of the same box.

Well, looking in the kernel code, it does seem to prefer the same 
address if they're both local, just like IPv6 does.  I'd call it a 
"feature".

-Brian
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