Sebastien Roy writes:
> 
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 14:12 -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:
> >     - Insert something into the sendmsg() path that explicitly sets the
> >           local IP & port for a single datagram.
> > 
> >             This involves kernel modifications, which would be awful if
> >             anyone requested such a daemon to run on older kernels.
> 
> This is the cleanest and most sensible approach, IMO.  A new ancillary
> data type that specifies the source address and/or port makes sense to
> me.

Yep.  You could call it IP_PKTINFO.  ;-}

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