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Re: [PATCH] Change masquerade code to use first IP address of interface.

To: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change masquerade code to use first IP address of interface.
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:46:50 +1000
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:24:17AM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> >Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>+       newsrc = inet_select_addr(out, 0, RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE);
> >>+       if (!newsrc) {
> >>+               printk("MASQUERADE: %s ate my IP address\n", out->name);
> >>+               return NF_DROP;
> >
> >Wouldn't it be better to select the address for the gateway that we're
> >sending towards?
> 
> What you mean?

I mean

        rt = (struct rtable *)(*pskb)->dst;
        newsrc = inet_select_addr(out, rt->rt_gateway, RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE);

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