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RE: Re-routing packets via netfilter (ip_rt_bug)

To: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Patrick McHardy" <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Re-routing packets via netfilter (ip_rt_bug)
From: "Yair Itzhaki" <Yair@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:39:31 +0200
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I'm afraid I'm not following you.
Where did you want to set saddr=0 ?

Yair


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Xu [mailto:herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 02:39
> To: Patrick McHardy
> Cc: Yair Itzhaki; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
> netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Re-routing packets via netfilter (ip_rt_bug)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 02:08:18AM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > Herbert Xu wrote:
> > >You're right.  But then we can't call ip_route_output in the case
> > >where saddr is foreign but daddr is local.  Nor can we call
> > >ip_route_input since the output will be ip_rt_bug.
> > 
> > In that case we need to use saddr=0, which shouldn't make 
> any difference
> > with sane routing.
> 
> Makes sense.  But what about the case where saddr is foreign but
> daddr is broadcast/multicast?
> 
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