From: lepton <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:16:17 +0800
> Hi,
> In some situation, icmp_reply and ip_send_reply will send
> out packet with the wrong source addr, the following patch
> will fix this.
>
> I don't understand why we must use rt->rt_src in the current
> code, if this is a wrong fix, please correct me.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <[email protected]>
That the address is wrong is your opinion only :-)
Source address selection is a rather complex topic, and
here we are definitely purposefully using the source
address selected by the routing lookup for the reply.
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