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

[Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>]

        Hello,

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Herbert Xu wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 05:00:43PM +1000, herbert wrote:
> >
> > Here's a better idea.  Why don't we forget about the route lookup
> > and call inet_select_addr directly?
>
> Even better, why don't we use the skb->dst directly? It already
> contains the preferred source for the route that led us to the
> device.
>
> Here is an untested patch which does exactly that? Please do your
> best to break it :)

        No need for tests :) rt_spec_dst is your preferred src
to the sender (your local internal IP) and rt_src is the internal
IP of the sender (what we snat).

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>