Jozsef Kadlecsik schrieb: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >>>local process -> routing -> OUTPUT chain -> routing -> POSTROUTING chain >>> >>>No problem with policy routing for the locally generated traffic. >> >>This sounds like a total overhead calculating the route twice. > > > The first one is required to fill out output device for the packet. The > second one is there to give chance to play with routing in OUTPUT. Still only 95% clear to me. You say, the second routing decision takes place right after filter/OUTPUT ? And if so, do packets after filter/FORWARD have this second routing decision too ? Have a nice time, Joerg