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ipv4: Implement IP_UNICAST_IF socket option.

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The IP_UNICAST_IF feature is needed by the Wine project.  This patch
implements the feature by setting the outgoing interface in a similar
fashion to that of IP_MULTICAST_IF.  A separate option is needed to
handle this feature since the existing options do not provide all of
the characteristics required by IP_UNICAST_IF, a summary is provided
below.

SO_BINDTODEVICE:
* SO_BINDTODEVICE requires administrative privileges, IP_UNICAST_IF
does not.  From reading some old mailing list articles my
understanding is that SO_BINDTODEVICE requires administrative
privileges because it can override the administrator's routing
settings.
* The SO_BINDTODEVICE option restricts both outbound and inbound
traffic, IP_UNICAST_IF only impacts outbound traffic.

IP_PKTINFO:
* Since IP_PKTINFO and IP_UNICAST_IF are independent options,
implementing IP_UNICAST_IF with IP_PKTINFO will likely break some
applications.
* Implementing IP_UNICAST_IF on top of IP_PKTINFO significantly
complicates the Wine codebase and reduces the socket performance
(doing this requires a lot of extra communication between the
"server" and "user" layers).

bind():
* bind() does not work on broadcast packets, IP_UNICAST_IF is
specifically intended to work with broadcast packets.
* Like SO_BINDTODEVICE, bind() restricts both outbound and inbound
traffic.

Signed-off-by: Erich E. Hoover <ehoover@mines.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Erich E. Hoover 2012-02-08 09:11:07 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller
parent 43480aecb1
commit 76e21053b5
6 changed files with 42 additions and 3 deletions
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include/net/inet_sock.h
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@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ struct rtable;
* @tos - TOS
* @mc_ttl - Multicasting TTL
* @is_icsk - is this an inet_connection_sock?
* @uc_index - Unicast outgoing device index
* @mc_index - Multicast device index
* @mc_list - Group array
* @cork - info to build ip hdr on each ip frag while socket is corked
@ -167,6 +168,7 @@ struct inet_sock {
transparent:1,
mc_all:1,
nodefrag:1;
int uc_index;
int mc_index;
__be32 mc_addr;
struct ip_mc_socklist __rcu *mc_list;