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

[Henrik Nordstrom <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?

It would surely not be sane to masquerade as the gateway we are sending 
towards.

Regards
Henrik