On Sunday 2008-08-24 20:31, David Miller wrote: > >> It appears that the routing code selects the outgoing source address to >> use for packets is chosen when the socket is established instead of >> at routing time. >> >> The following presents a test case for "unexpected" (from a user's >> perspective) behavior. >> >> Is there any way to make it behave as a user would expect? > >No matter when we had made the routing lookup, we would have ended >up with what you see the kernel doing. > >The route is looked up long before netfilter even sees the packets. > >The source address selection at the socket level can only "see" the >original destination address and therefore makes the source address >selection using that original destination address. That's what I thought. With IPv4, one can cheat and use SNAT/MASQUERADE, but what about IPv6? (Other than using the RAWNAT extension, which bypasses netfilter connection tracking.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
