BindToAddress: TCP connections originate from random source address.

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Wed Jun 10 21:41:32 CEST 2009


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:31:52PM -0500, Rob Townley wrote:

> if one doesnt want a patch, wouldnt
> 
> /sbin/ip rule help
> 
> fix this?

Florian's patch has been applied, see:

http://www.tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?p=tinc;a=commit;h=41a05f59ba2c3eb5caab555f096ed1b9fbe69ee3

Certainly, Linux' advanced routing features allow you to simulate binding to an
address. But that doesn't work on other platforms, although they might have
their own tricks to do it. Also, it was just silly that tinc would bind
listening sockets but not outgoing sockets.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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