Re: [RFC] MASQUERADE / policy routing ("Route send us somewhere else")

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:43:37PM +1000, herbert wrote:
> 
> In this case I really don't see what's wrong with setting oif in
> the key.  In fact that's exactly what we want to do: Get the
> preferred source address when the localhost is going to send
> a packet to *that* device.

Here's a better idea.  Why don't we forget about the route lookup
and call inet_select_addr directly?

The only time when someone wants to use MASQUERADE over SNAT is
when the interface carries a dynamic address.  In such cases,
inet_select_addr should always return the preferred address, no?

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