Re: Re-routing packets via netfilter (ip_rt_bug)

[Herbert Xu]

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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