Masquerading and timeout setting

NIIBE Yutaka (gniibe@mri.co.jp)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 21:08:39 +0900


In recent kernels (at least in 2.1.9x--2.1.110), setting masquerading
timeout by ipfwadm (-M -s) doesn't work.

In ipfwadm, it eventually calls kernel function of ip_fw_ctl in
net/ipv4/ip_fw.c, and set the variable ip_masq_expire. However, the
value of variable ip_masq_expire is not used anyware.

Actually, the value of the variable masq_timeout_table is used for
timeout processing in net/ipv4/ip_masq.c, but we don't have any
interface setting the value.

Changes needed?

-- 
NIIBE Yutaka

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