Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2009-01-28 15:58, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > >> This patch adds the PKTTYPE target which can be used to mangle the >> skbuff packet type field. This target is useful in conjunction with >> the arptables mcmangle target to TCP working again when a >> multicast hardware address is used. An example of its use: >> >> iptables -I PREROUTING ! -s 224.0.0.0/4 -t mangle \ >> -j PKTTYPE --to-pkt-type unicast > > Are not packets not destined for 224/4 - assuming standard route setups - > unicast anyway? Not if you use the mcmangle arptables target to use a multicast hardware address instead of the normal unicast, in that case, the link layer set them to PACKET_MULTICAST. Indeed, the only use that I can find for this target at the moment is to combine it with mcmangle. -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers -- 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
