Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4180] New: masquarade and source ip

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

spied <spied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>The masquerading code got simplified and uses inet_select_addr() instead
>>of querying routing for the source address now.
> 
> why?

Because the previous approach of looking up the route again was
prone to failure with multi-path routing.  More importantly it
doesn't always return the correct route (that is the route the
packet received before it entered POSTROUTING).
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