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[David S. Miller]

On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 17:53, Neil Brown wrote:
> No.
> My application (which is just using standard rpc server libraries) is
> saying
>   "This is in reply to a request that came in through a given
>   interface".
> 
> It is not reasonable to treat that statement as equivalent to:
>   "This packet must go out that interface"
> 
> which is what appears to be happening.

You misunderstand what this control message knob means during
a sendmsg() then, it means "send this over interface X"

There is no other valid expectation.

I'm curious where you read something that would suggest otherwise
for sendmsg() behavior wrt. ip_pktinfo