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    ipv4: Implement IP_UNICAST_IF socket option. · 76e21053
    Erich E. Hoover authored
    
    
    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: default avatarErich E. Hoover <ehoover@mines.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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