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

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:04:51PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> >I mean
> >
> >     rt = (struct rtable *)(*pskb)->dst;
> >     newsrc = inet_select_addr(out, rt->rt_gateway, RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE);
> 
> IIRC we are not allowed to access this here, but I may be wrong.. If we 

Why? POST_ROUTING is called in three places in ip_output.c and they all
give a valid dst.  In fact ip_refrag in ip_conntrack_standalone.c is also
accessing skb->dst.

> are allowe to access the rtable like this then this is obviously better, 
> and should also solve most policy routing setups (and allow the others to 
> be solved).

Well it isn't really equivalent to full policy routing since we've lost
the preferred source field.

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