> I am new to Linux networking code and am trying out > something new for my project. > I'm basically trying to build a port based Load > Balancer box. In short i maintain a table of ports and > then forward whatever request i get to a server whose > ip i know. But the problem is that i am unable to > forward a packet with the source ip as the address of > this machine. I have added code in ip_input.c to do > this and do a ip_route_input after doing a > dst_release. It is able to forward the packet if the > source address is not changed. ( ip_forwarding is > enabled and i have also run echo 1 > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward). IP firewalling is also > enable. > However when i assign the source address as this > machine it is not able to forward the packet. I would suggest that you work in user space rather than tinkering with the kernel code. This would also provide scope for novel features in your load balancer. -Sarada - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
