> I agree with Jim that the dependency on the tsrc being ifconfig'd is not > useful and I understand that it arises due to bind semantics that are > sensible and well-established for ordinary networking applications. > Perhaps we should add a new privileged bind option that allows binding > to an address that the local stack doesn't yet know it is allowed to > use, with the understanding that no packets will be passed until the > address does get assigned, a state that can already be reached by taking > away an address while something is bound to it.
Hmm, I thought the state you can get in today is where the source address continues to be used even though the address is down. Do we actually prevent packets from flowing using that source address? -- meem
