From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:21:34 +0200

> This allows any user to send spoofed packets when ip_nonlocal_bind
> is set, which is a quite big change in behaviour of this option.
> The TPROXY patches include a similar change, but use a flag in
> struct flowi that requires CAP_NET_ADMIN to be set, which seems like
> a better idea. Alternatively you could just use input routing for
> non-local source addresses like ip_route_me_harder does.

Good point.

> BTW, there doesn't even seem to be a spot where IPVS calls
> ip_route_output with the source address set. What exactly is this
> needed for?

I suppose he has a patch to make use of it, but was waiting
for this route.c change to go in first.
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