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Old 06-24-2003
Paul
 
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Default Re: [Q}Linux TCP/IP stack routing...

hcckfn@cmvykd.com.zj wrote in message news:<NzQJa.647$g_1.4478@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> |When figuring out the next hop, does it consider source as well as destination?
> |
> |I thought that Routing only looks at destination.
> |But, Linux routing info entry(in TCP/IP stack) consists of source+destination+TOS.
> |
> |Any comment?
>
> Consider a multihomed host... (you fill in the rest).


Still, routing is just to find a nexthop and send over to it. Why source matters?
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